[www.independent.co.uk]

Interesting. I wonder how the therapy is administered. I couldn't tell from that article.

Will

In this article it suggests that Jennifer Doudna's team are already working CRISPR and HD....do you know anything about this Marsha?

[www.independent.co.uk]

........Her team is already, for instance, working on possible ways of using the CAS9 system to disrupt the extra damaging chromosome responsible for Down syndrome, or the extra repetitive sequences of DNA that lead to Huntington disease, a lethal inherited disorder that strikes carriers of the defective gene in mid-life. “These are the kinds of genetic defects that one could envisage coming up with strategies to treat, which we haven’t really been able to do in the past,” Professor Doudna said. “What’s exciting is that you can see the potential, and it’s certainly going to drive a lot of research to try to explore it as a potential human therapeutic tool.”

Wow. For everyone at risk or with kids at risk this is great news.
Everyday I pray for a cure. I realize it is probably too late for
my husband as his condition is pretty advanced, but I will always
pray for our kids at risk.
Fingers crossed.

could someone explain all that in simpler terms please ,

It's a dramatically different and more precise way to do gene therapy for HD and other diseases.

Will

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> could someone explain all that in simpler terms
> please ,


They a have short video that explains how it works.

[www.independent.co.uk]