New Kid on the Block – CRISPR Akshat Jain MD MPH CRISPR (Clustered Regularly Interspaced Palindromic Repeats) is the most recent medical breakthrough, which might very well be on the way to define the most remarkable medical discovery of this century. Imagine a time, where a person could get a blood test, which would tell him the exact gene defect that are causing his symptoms and pin point his “dis-ease”. He then takes his blood sample to a “Gene Shop” where programmed segments of healthy DNA are “stitched” in to his genome and injected back to him. A few pills and couple of months later – Voilà!! He gets cured of what could be Alzheimer’s or Leukemia or Hemophilia, Thalassemia, Sickle cell disease. While the Tesla’s and Space X’s of our time are busy to create the advanced intelligence “AI” and Hyperloop etc. to transform society the medical technology of “Gene Editing” is quietly making its way past animals to Human subject trials . CRISPR is the fa...
