a cancer success story, cured by gene editing

[joachim]

an encouraging success story:

https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn28454-gene-editing-saves-life-of-girl-dying-from-leukaemia-in-world-first/

as mentioned already a few times here: the new gene editing technique called CRISPR is one of the holy grails in medicine, which changes health of mankind forever. the other piece of the puzzle is iPS cells. with those 2 relatively young breakthroughs, every cell modifications you can imagine are possible now.
we'll here many success stories of this kind more and more frequently now.
if we can't cure baldness yet, at least cancer and other deadly diseases will soon be treatable.

[Vic]

Great post. Thanks.

[ShookOnes]

an encouraging success story:

https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn28454-gene-editing-saves-life-of-girl-dying-from-leukaemia-in-world-first/

as mentioned already a few times here: the new gene editing technique called CRISPR is one of the holy grails in medicine, which changes health of mankind forever. the other piece of the puzzle is iPS cells. with those 2 relatively young breakthroughs, every cell modifications you can imagine are possible now.
we'll here many success stories of this kind more and more frequently now.
if we can't cure baldness yet, at least cancer and other deadly diseases will soon be treatable.

Best part is that CRISPR is cheap, main component is like 30 bucks for the RNA fragment. This would be the holy grail indeed lol, genetic changes...hot damn. I wonder if AA researchers will consider this... Or if they will continue on their own labs and research, and we wait a goddamn long time for new researchers to try using this.

[ShookOnes]

Read it was success because she was on leukmonia drugs which destroy her immune system to prevent them to attacking the new cells... :/

[polios]

This is some hot stuff. I hope that this was not only some one time success and that we will read something more about this soon (and with soon I do not mean 5 years) and that a lot of lives will be saved that way.

[Kiwi]

So based on the following text, does it stand to reason we could get donor hair transplants? They can disable the gene that recognises foreign cells...

Any thoughts?

Qasim’s team, however, has been developing “off-the-shelf” treatments, in which T-cells from a healthy donor are modified so they could potentially be given to hundreds of patients. Normally if T-cells from another person were injected into a recipient who was not a perfect match, they would recognise all of the recipient’s cells as foreign and attack them. To prevent this, Qasim’s team used gene editing to disable a gene in the donor cells that makes a receptor that recognises other cells as foreign.

[FooFighter]

http://www.technologyreview.com/news/543181/crispr-gene-editing-to-be-tested-on-people-by-2017-says-editas/

Probably it will need another 10 years to see if it is working on humans or not. Everything is cure on paper, but in reality is something different. Time will tell.

[Keki]

The reality is not like the movie Gattaca, if tomorrow we could destroy the hairloss gene they will never develop it anyway, they will use the tech just for serious disease for sure and let us lose every single follicle

[FooFighter]

This technologies are all new, so they will need years of investigations, trials to proofe that they are safe and benefit for us.

[ShookOnes]

This technologies are all new, so they will need years of investigations, trials to proofe that they are safe and benefit for us.

Yeah doubt this will reach a timeline we can look forward to. Histogen has a better chance. Lol.