In A 1st, Doctors In U.S. Use CRISPR Tool To Treat Patient With Genetic Disorder

Thank you, my friend PO1 William "Chip" Nagel for hopeful news that a CRISPR tool may be able to help at least some patients with some genetic orders. I hope this will be successful. I also hope that the genetic orders that can be treated with be effectively expanded ASAP.

"For the first time, doctors in the U.S. have used the powerful gene-editing technique CRISPR [(clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats] to try to treat a sickle-cell anemia patient with a genetic disorder.
Background on CRISPR "CRISPR" stands for "clusters of regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats." It is a specialized region of DNA with two distinct characteristics: the presence of nucleotide repeats and spacers. Repeated sequences of nucleotides — the building blocks of DNA — are distributed throughout a CRISPR region. Spacers are bits of DNA that are interspersed among these repeated sequences. In the case of bacteria, the spacers are taken from viruses that previously attacked the organism."
https://www.livescience.com/58790-crispr-explained.html

"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."

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