[dp0622]

I’m confused. There’s a shock :)

If you get a genetic disease, which could be diabetes, cancer, heck schizophrenia, can gene therapy help you once you have the disease or is it only useful if the gene runs in your family and they modify the gene before you get said disease later on in life.

I guess in other words, could it treat people BORN with a disease or is it too late at that point.

You can have a genetic disposition to diabetes but not get it until 40. If it can be corrected at a young age, you don’t have to worry.

[bitt]

:)

I’m with ya - I only PLAY a doctor on FR....

waiting for an explanation myself...

[5by5]

Yes, it does have the potential to edit genes of living organisms. Much work remains to be done before we have treatments for specific genetic problems though because this technology, however promising, is still in its infancy.

This is shaping up to be the patent battle of the century like Wright/Curtis 100 years ago.

Some people believe the impact could be similar to that of aviation...

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

I think you are way ahead of the researchers ......they are still working on how they can cut and paste stuff....

Other real medical practitioners will need to see if the stuff does any good.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Let me drop this link to an article posted on FreeRepublic in Dec 2015.

Disease-resistant pigs latest win for gene editing technology

Posted by o_1_2_3__.