Changing our DNA: 'The age of human therapeutic gene editing is here' - CNN

5/31/2022 12:00:00 AM2 years 11 months ago
by Sandee LaMotte, CNN
by Sandee LaMotte, CNN
Advances in gene editing have brought us ever closer to fixing some of the most devastating diseases of our time, such as progeria and sickle cell disease.
(CNN)When popular YouTube star Adalia Rose died earlier this year, she looked like a diminutive, sickly woman in her 80s. In reality she was only 15 years old, a victim of progeria, an extremely rare… [+7354 chars]
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