A New Gene Editing Technique Has Treated Its First Human Disease

Doctors are taking the first steps towards solving a massive source of disease that, until now, has seemed out of reach. Our genes, the instructions inside of our cells that dictate how each one of us works, why each one of us is unique, have been untouchable — until now. Britain’s medicines regulator has just approved the first gene editing treatment to help fix a lifelong disease. The editing treatment, a technique called CRISPR, has been around for several years. (Its discoverers <a href="https://www.unesco.org/en/articles/jennifer-doudna-and-emmanuelle-charpentier-win-2020-nobel-prize-chemistry" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">won a Nobel Prize</a> for it in 2020.) But until now, it’s not been approved by a governing body for medical use in humans. <a href="https://medium.com/wise-well/a-new-gene-editing-technique-has-treated-its-first-human-disease-96236c96ecaa">Click Here</a>