Imagine a world where crushing
genetic diseases like Huntington's and cystic fibrosis can be cured. Thanks to
crispr, genetic disease may be eliminated.
CRISPR Cas-9 (an abbreviation
standing for "Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic
Repeats") is a gene-splicing technology capable of finding and removing
mutated sections of DNA. Once this material is eliminated, crispr technology can
replace the mutated sections with non-mutated variants.
As a result, crispr has the power to
permanently eliminate certain types of genetic diseases from blood lines. The
technology has already been used to eliminate cancer in some patients, and
early results show that it may be possible to cure genetically caused blindness as well.
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