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Podcast: In Focus by The Hindu
Episode: How can gene editing help cure disease?
Description: This month, there’s been a lot of excitement in the medical world over the approval given to treatments for diseases that based on genome editing. What’s this all about? In 2020, the Nobel Prize for Chemistry was given to two women scientists, Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer Doudna for their discovery of what is essentially a genetic scissors, a tool that allows scientists to cut specific sites of a human being’s DNA, or to edit it, by making minor changes.This tool, known as the CRISPR/Cas9 system, opened up opportunities to treat certain genetic or inheri...