UK Approves CRISPR-Cas9 Technology for Disease Treatment

Individuals with genetic diseases have an increased chance of lower quality of life. However, a new technology has been developed that could edit DNA and take out possible mutations resolving genetic disorders. This new technology is known as clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats (CRISPR) – Caspase (Cas)9. On the most basic level, CRISPR-Cas9 has a guide ribonucleic acid (RNA) that matches a desired gene and caspase 9, which is a protein that allows the double stranded deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) to break for genetic modification….