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CRISPR | The Future of Genetic Engineering

Dr. Matt and Dr. Mike's Medical Podcast

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The Importance of CRISPR in Genetic Diseases

The way CRISPR works is that for genetic diseases, it could be genetically inherited. So an example of that could be hemophilia. And so that would be... It's an X-linked genetic alteration. Yep. Because females have two Xs, they generally ... If they were to have this faulty gene, they have the backup to overcome it. What would you carry? To overcome it. Yes. But because males only have one X chromosome, then that's it for them. They don't have that redundancy like they do with all the other chromosomes. Genotypically, but they would also express it. Phenotypically. Yeah. I think that's really important for

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