Crohn’s is bad. The new genetic techniques offer the hope of precise edits in the DNA of both adult and stem cells so as to eliminate or silence offending genes. Human trials and clinical use are years away, but the fundamental science is advancing rapidly.
yeah it’s definitely advancing much quicker than it has in the past- I’ve had this for over 40 years now, back I n the day not very much was known about Crohn’;s at all and I was ifnact misdiagnosed for many years and not treated medically properly for all those years- The first surgery I had the docs asked me if they could use what was removed as a teaching aid in their research department- wow- that was a lot of years ago-
but in the last few years, I’m actually now reading about possible cures in the not too distant future- I think they still don’t know what causes Crohn’s, but I don’t think it will really matter to know the actual cause if they can just cure it once it shows up- of course they will still want to know the cause so as to hopefully provide info on things to avoid (if it’s caused by environmental issues, or food issues, or some bug or whatever- so that people can cut down their odd of getting it in first place but again, it will be kinda moot really if it,. and other diseases can be genetically eliminated or tamed with safer more effective drugs and or procedures-