FDA Approves World’s First Crispr Gene-Editing Drug for Sickle-Cell Disease
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The U.S. has approved the world’s first medicine employing Crispr technology, a Nobel Prize-winning discovery that promised a powerful new tool to treat disease.

The key thing about this kind of therapy is that it’s not a drug you keep on taking - it’s a one-time thing which permanently cures the disease.

  • Gormadt@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Never thought I read a headline like that in my lifetime

    Can’t wait to see the Wikipedia article go from "Sickle Cell Disease is… to "Sickle Cell Disease was… "