Baby liver disease treatment: The doctors once again showed that when science and compassion goes together, miracles can also become a reality. In America, a 9 -month -old innocent child, who was struggling with a very rare and deadly liver disease, has now become an example of a new hope. It is not treated with any common medicine or surgery, but with a CRISPR based gene-editing technology and that too according to its genetic mutation in a personalized manner. This is the first time a person has been treated in this way.
What is the whole matter?
Scientists of the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia and Pen Medicine together have successfully treated a 9 -month -old child named KG Maldoon. This child was suffering from carbamoyal phosphate synthetic deficiency and liver problem, in which the body is unable to properly process the toxins formed after protein metabolism. Due to this disease, the newborn could have serious health problems. But this time science has opened a new path.
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How did CRISPR treatment be treated?
CRISPR (Clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic reepeats) is a gene-editing technique, which can be replaced with great accurate DNA.
A technique called base editing was used in the treatment of KG, in which a “letter” of DNA was replaced, he also cut the Strand without DNA.
This technique is especially useful for “One-off” genetic mutations, which are extremely rare and which are not already treated.
The most important thing is that the treatment has been completed in just six months.
What is the importance of this achievement?
For the first time a person friendly gene editing therapy has been used clinicly.
With this, other rare diseases can also be treated in this way.
This therapy can reduce the requirement of long -lasting drugs or complex transplant processes.
With this, scientists around the world will get a blueprint, so that they will be able to develop treatment for such diseases.
KG’s story is not limited to saving the life of a child, it is the beginning of the new era of science. Where the treatment of diseases will not be made ‘equal for all’, but according to the needs of a particular person. CRISPR technology has proved that if technology is used properly, impossible may also be possible.
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