Terrin:
Holy Science, Batman!
We have a hell of a breakthrough for you!
Opening Titles
Terrin:
Leading this week's ground breaking innovations,
scientists have developed a technology that
can cure genetic diseases using a revolutionary
genome editing technique.
David:
This genome editing technology is called the
Crispr.
A technology that allows scientist to make
almost any DNA change at precisely defined
points on the chromosome of animals or plants.
Crispr was originally discovered in 1987 as
an immune defense used by bacteria against
viruses.
Terrin:
Crispr uses a simple method of changing individual
letters of the human genome.
According to the Independent, " Scientists
have used the genome-editing technology to
cure adult laboratory mice of an inherited
liver disease by correcting a single "letter"
of the genetic alphabet which had been mutated
in a vital gene involved in liver metabolism."
