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Re:Gene editing saves girl dying from leukaemia in world first by fasteo on Saturday November 07, 2015 @03:46PM (#10526164)
In this particular case, they have used TALEN, but we have two additional gene editing techniques that show promise. Namely,

- ZFN [2]

- CRISPR [3]

I have great hopes in all of them and in fact, my genetic condition [4] has already been fixed in-vitro using both mitoTALENs [5] and ZFN [6].

Exciting times for medicine. Too bad that we have a long, desperate bureaucratic burden ahead.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transcription_activator-like_e...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zinc_finger_nuclease

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CRISPR

[4] http://www.ninds.nih.gov/disorders/mitochondrial_myopathy/mi...

[5] http://www.nature.com/nm/journal/v19/n9/full/nm.3261.html

[6] http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3992073/

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Re:Gene editing saves girl dying from leukaemia in world first by yarou on Sunday November 08, 2015 @12:05AM (#10527581)
It truly is an exciting time to live in.

CRISPR in particular looks promising for editing human embryos, and we may be on the cusp of a post-cancer world with CAR T-Cell Therapy.

One of my coworkers, who has the same cancer as my deceased father, is going for an experimental treatment involving CAR T-Cell therapy.

Unfortunately, there will always be a bureaucratic burden, but I doubt it will restrict the progress of these types of technologies and innovation.

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