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Britain has greenlit the country's free healthcare system to use a CRISPR gene-editing therapy for sickle cell anaemia that it is hoped will be a complete cure for the genetic disorder. (www.theguardian.com)
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[–] Anticorp@lemmy.ml 6 points 11 months ago

This is wild! When I was a kid they were still working on mapping the human genome. Now in half a lifetime they've gone from trying to unravel our genes to editing them to cure disease. Amazing!