Gene Editing Tool - used first time to treat blindness
March 6 , 2020 1728 days 953 0
The Gene Editing Tool called CRISPR (Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats) has been used for the first time to treat blindness in Oregon University, Portland, USA.
However, doctors claimed that it will take a month to check if the vision of the patient has restored.
This gene-editing technique try to edit a gene while the DNA is still inside a person's body.