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Medical: Doctors In U.S. Use CRISPR Tool To Treat Patient With Genetic Disorder

Introversion

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For the first time, doctors in the U.S. have used the powerful gene-editing technique CRISPR to try to treat a patient with a genetic disorder.

NPR said:
"It is just amazing how far things have come," says Victoria Gray, 34, of Forest, Miss. "It is wonderful," she told NPR in an exclusive interview after undergoing the landmark treatment for sickle cell disease.

Gray is the first patient ever to be publicly identified as being involved in a study testing the use of CRISPR for a genetic disease.

"I always had hoped that something will come along," she says from a hospital bed at the Sarah Cannon Research Institute in Nashville, Tenn., where she received an infusion of billions of genetically modified cells. "It's a good time to get healed."

But it probably will take months, if not years, of careful monitoring of Gray and other patients before doctors know whether the treatment is safe and how well it might be helping patients.

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Very cool.

CRISPR is part of how my characters became the way they are--I am sure it is widely used among SF writers in this day and age, but it's great to see a non-fictional contemporaneous use that works, and in humans. I might need to add another footnote to the novel.

Thanks Introversion! Love that you post these.
 
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