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CRISPR and Sickle Cell
In theory, you could treat every genetic disease in an adult using CRISPR. The difficulty is getting the reagents into the right tissues to do the right change. There isn't that much controversy about using CRispr for these kind of applications. Jennifer Doudna who was one of the women who won the Nobel Prize said the potential of the technology is so good it changes the ethical question from do we have the right to do it? Do we have a right to withhold it? Because it is potentially so good.