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Hello and welcome to The Excerpt. I'm Dana Taylor. Today is Thursday, June 20th, 2024 and this is a special episode of the

excerpt. With the advent of CRISPR as a gene editing technology, there are new opportunities

to develop breakthrough treatments that weren't possible before.

Could this be a turning point that revolutionizes how doctors treat

some of the biggest medical challenges

while also being a more effective and cheaper solution for the patient?

Here to tell us about his work in genome editing

and how could shape the future of medicine

is Shindarsai, associate member,

and principal investigator of the Department

of Humatology at St Jude Children's Research Hospital.

Thanks for being on the excerpt Schindar.

Sure thing.

It's good to be here.

What is CRISPR and can you explain how it's being used in new ways to treat disease?

CRISPR stands for clustered and

first regularly spaced palindromic repeats.

So CRISPR is a method for, I know it's a mouthful, so CRISPR is a method for genome editing.

It allows you to change the DNA and living cells and one of the reasons why everyone's really

excited about CRISPR technologies is the fact that it can be programmed with a short

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