Scientists Successfully Use CRISPR to Fix Mutation Causing Heart Muscle Disease

[Megalith]

Gene-editing technique CRISPR has been used to target and repair a mutation in nuclear DNA that causes hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, a common genetic heart disease that can cause sudden cardiac death and heart failure. This is groundbreaking research proving that inherited diseases can be prevented from being passed on from one generation to the next.

The study provides new insight into a technique that could apply to thousands of inherited genetic disorders affecting millions of people worldwide. The gene-editing technique described in this study, done in concert with in vitro fertilization, could provide a new avenue for people with known heritable disease-causing genetic mutations to eliminate the risk of passing the disease to their children. It could also increase the success of IVF by increasing the number of healthy embryos.

 

[RogueTadhg]

Sounds like one of those Hot Pocket envelops that I put my pastery inside to crisp the crust.

I'm now hungry.

 

[Sp33dFr33k]

This is how the XMEN mutations started...