CRISPR is here.

RoryN

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FDA has approved the first one.

Politics Board seems appropriate...

In historic decision, FDA approves a CRISPR-based medicine for treatment of sickle cell disease

The Food and Drug Administration on Friday approved the world’s first medicine based on CRISPR gene-editing technology, a groundbreaking treatment for sickle cell disease that delivers a potential cure for people born with the chronic and life-shortening blood disorder.

https://www.statnews.com/2023/12/08...edicine-for-treatment-of-sickle-cell-disease/
 
Gene editing will revolutionize treatment for many inherited genetic diseases. The problem...as always...is it is super fucking expensive limiting who can get the treatments. Insurance...at this time...I do not believe comes close to covering this
 
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