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There's been a big CRISPR breakthrough. What does the future hold?
Manage episode 484411167 series 5409
In a world first, a baby has been treated with a personalised gene-editing technique.
KJ’s parents were given the choice of a liver transplant or a CRISPR therapy that nobody had ever received. The journey isn’t over, but KJ has improved.
So what’s on the horizon for CRISPR therapies – will we continue to see personalised applications?
Guest/s
- Professor Marco Herold, CEO of the Olivia Newton-John Cancer Research Institute and head of the Genome Engineering and Cancer Modelling Program
References
1507 episodes
Manage episode 484411167 series 5409
In a world first, a baby has been treated with a personalised gene-editing technique.
KJ’s parents were given the choice of a liver transplant or a CRISPR therapy that nobody had ever received. The journey isn’t over, but KJ has improved.
So what’s on the horizon for CRISPR therapies – will we continue to see personalised applications?
Guest/s
- Professor Marco Herold, CEO of the Olivia Newton-John Cancer Research Institute and head of the Genome Engineering and Cancer Modelling Program
References
1507 episodes
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