Genome editing and CRISPR-Cas9 has been all over the news in the past couple of years, and with good reasons.
CRISPR-Cas9, a gene-editing tool is making gene editing easier and faster than ever, and the possibilities it has opened go well beyond human health.
Recently, Indian scientists developed a new variant of CRISPR-Cas9 and showed that it can increase precision in editing genome while avoiding unintended changes in DNA.
The researchers showed that this type of gene editing can be used to correct sickle cell anaemia, a genetic blood disorder.
The experiments were done in human-derived cells from patients of sickle cell anaemia.