I’m surprised it’s taken this long. I’ve been waiting for this headline since 2014 when I first heard of CRISPR.

Glad to see a rubber meets the road post. Hopefully we have more CRISPR trials as the years go on.

Money 💰

"tested"

And what was the result of the test?

> A month after treatment, five of the patients’ tumors were the same size as before, suggesting that the engineered cells may have had a stabilizing effect on their condition.

> The cancer continued to progress in the other 11 patients, but the patient given the highest dose of cells saw a short term improvement in their cancer — that could mean the treatment would be more effective in future studies if administered in higher doses.

> “We just need to hit it stronger the next time,” said Ribas.

Now if they can just fix my heart and lung damage

Dont hold your breath yet fellas. It might back fire and go back another half decade

Ethics.

Yes, it's very morally ambiguous as to whether treating cancer and other diseases is a good thing

All data is progress.

Code of ethics on whether we "play god" as they say in medical terms.

Play God? Lol which one?

I know, but that's extremely, extremely dumb and slowing down medical research or application for that reason is the furthest thing in the world from ethical.

Omnisiah, save me from this frail body

it really is. we could accomplish so much more if the ethics board was lax

right it's more religious dogma as a road for progress

I would argue that this CRISPR and what we had in 2014 is far from being the same, the initial version was a great concept but did not live up to standards, even current iteration only shows double digit improvement but not in all people and is not what we hoped to see when we first read about slicing and re programming, however I am hopeful that there is an acceleration, baby steps but we are increasing the impact...

Oh indeed, improvement is marked in time, but was anticipating it a bit earlier, but not right after it was announced.

It’s just obvious that the logical way to fight cancer is on a genetic scale, and CRISPR or something similar would be the way to accomplish that.

Great perspective. The tributaries of many advances must accelerate whatever's possible.

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