Post by MPN-MATE Admin » Thu Dec 26, 2019 11:43 pm
Hey everyone...
Trusting that you have all enjoyed some happy times with family & friends over Christmas etc...
As many oy you might be aware, I am always scouring through research hoping to find that illusive 'Silver Bullet Cure' where perhaps no such things even exist... Sometimes, human research and Trials of the same, only lead to having created many other heretofore unknown or unrealised new sets of problems...
In very recent times, one such new notion involves the process of 'Gene Editing'...
Of the three (3) known 'Driver Mutations' thought to be the cause of MPNs, the CALR mutations are found in strands of human DNA through either a 'Deletion of exomes or an Insertion' along various parts of our human genome'
(The exome is composed of all of the exons within the genome, the sequences which, when transcribed, remain within the mature RNA after introns are removed by RNA splicing.)
CRISPR Cas9, which was co-invented by Drs Jennifer Doudna & Emmanuelle Charpentier. I shall endeavour to allow Jennifer to explain via these TED Talks:
Best wishes
Steve
(Sydney)