The work, they said, began decades ago with federal funding for basic research on bacterial immune systems. That led eventually, with more federal support, to the discovery of CRISPR. Federal investment in sequencing the human genome made it possible to identify KJ’s mutation. U.S. funding supported Dr. Liu’s lab and its editing discovery. A federal program to study gene editing supported Dr. Musunuru’s research. Going along in parallel was federally funded work that led to an understanding of KJ’s disease.
This along with rna vaccines are one of the few technologies that give me hope for a bit of improvement. If it can become common.
Correct me if I’m wrong, but I think RNA vaccines predate covid. At least conceptually. I think the covid vaccine was the first to scale it successfully.
Yeah and the big thing is this allows for much more targeted vaccine production. Has massive promise in cancer treatment.
I wrote a term paper on genetic vaccines in 2006. It’s been a while.