Crispr-Cas9 And The Future Of Gene Editing And Genetic Counseling

CRISPR-Cas9 gene-editing technology opens up a world of possibilities to treat and prevent human diseases and genetic disorders. He also opened up a box of ethical worms about what limits to place – especially when it comes to changing human embryos. This blog discusses the benefits and complications of gene editing services CRISPR-Cas9 through the lens of a genetic counsellor.

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In the recent press, there were several articles on gene manipulation of the human embryo: good and bad. The development of the CRISPR-Cas9 technology, one of the newest and most well-known gene-editing techniques, has resulted in a series of experiments on human embryos that promote gene editing ethics.

It started in 2015 when a team of Chinese researchers used a gene-editing technique called CRISPR-Cas9 to manipulate human embryonic genes to "remove" the part of DNA responsible for deadly blood disease (β-thalassemia) (published) in Protein & Cells).

Recently, an international team of researchers published an article in Nature in August 2017 in which they manipulated human embryos with CRISPR-Cas to determine whether the technique was used successfully to eradicate a deadly genetic mutation. Research on gene editing (especially on germline processing with human embryos) has left researchers in ethical difficulties.

You can get more information on gene editing from various sites over the internet.