How will gene editing change medicine and who will benefit?
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Gene Editing in Sickle Cell Disease
The debate about designer babies, we've leapt way ahead of ourselves. There aren't even many people suggesting that we should be moving into the clinic with editing embryos for cases of very severe disease at this point. The much closer applications of gene editing are for treating genetic diseases in children or adults where a mutation is causing problems and you could target those cells with gene editing to make them work in a healthy way.
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