World First As UK Greenlights Landmark CRISPR Gene Editing Treatment
The universe ’s firstCRISPR - free-base therapy has been approved by the UK medicines governor , it was announce on Thursday . The pioneering treatment , which involves the much - lauded gene - editing method acting CRISPR , will target two blood conditions : sickle - cell disease and genus Beta - thalassemia . “ This is a landmark approval which start the room access for further lotion of CRISPR therapies in the future for the likely cure of many genetic disease , ” Kay Davies , a professor of anatomy at the University of Oxford , secern theScience Media Centre ....