Chinese researchers have reported safe treatment of a man with leukemia and HIV by means of gene-editing tool CRISPR for the first time, a stride forward in a field that upset many, last year when other Chinese scientists used the same technology to make the world’s first genetically-edited babies.
Published in the New England Journal of Medicine, the man’s case is the first complete report in a major academic journal, detailing in what way doctors are using the experimental tool, CRISPR to change the DNA of an alive patient in an attempt to cure disease. However, even before the previous controversy in China, there’s been a substantial note of cautiousness in the field about how fast and far to proceed with the technology.
Source: https://livescience.tech/2020/10/13/scientists-tried-crispr-to-treat-hiv-and-cancer/
Published in the New England Journal of Medicine, the man’s case is the first complete report in a major academic journal, detailing in what way doctors are using the experimental tool, CRISPR to change the DNA of an alive patient in an attempt to cure disease. However, even before the previous controversy in China, there’s been a substantial note of cautiousness in the field about how fast and far to proceed with the technology.
Source: https://livescience.tech/2020/10/13/scientists-tried-crispr-to-treat-hiv-and-cancer/
