When a vaccine for polio was developed by Salk, a lot testing and red tape was cut because of the widespread public fear of the disease.  It still took more than a year to get it out.  But these bespoke CRISPR treatments should be able to accept a lot more risk of accidentally killing one person, that a nation wide vaccine program which would risk killing millions of people.

Brent

On 12/10/2022 6:46 AM, John Clark wrote:
Check out this article from The New York Times. Because I'm a subscriber, you can read it through this gift link without a subscription.

We Can Cure Disease by Editing a Person’s DNA. Why Aren’t We?

Revolutionized medicine may be at hand, but barriers remain.

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