CRISPR gene-editing breakthrough opens door to treating broad array of diseases

Re:CRISPR gene-editing breakthrough opens door to treating b... by BurningFrog on Saturday June 26, 2021 @02:55PM (#27644753)

So this is editing liver cells, which I read somewhere is the easiest to do, since the liver absorbs foreign elements from the bloodstream.

The success of this should mean that many genetic liver conditions can soon be treated this way.

For other organs, I expect a longer wait.

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Re:CRISPR gene-editing breakthrough opens door to treating b... by codeulike on Saturday June 26, 2021 @05:38PM (#27646138)

The brain is particularly hard due to blood/brain barrier, crispr is too big a molecule to go through. So might need injections into cerebral spinal fluid for that

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Re:CRISPR gene-editing breakthrough opens door to treating b... by wgolsen on Saturday June 26, 2021 @06:41PM (#27646667)

The lung epithelium has also recently been transfected in humans (see Translate Bio cf drug; this and similar vehicles can deliver editing tools)

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