Crispr Halted Muscular Dystrophy in Dogs. Someday, It Might Cure Humans
Crispr Halted Muscular Dystrophy in Dogs. Someday, It Might Cure Humans
Science, Spoken · SpokenLayer
September 5, 20186m 51s
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Show Notes
About ten years ago, British veterinarians discovered an unlucky family of King Charles Spaniels whose male pups sometimes came down with a mysterious set of maladies before their first birthday. They grew clumsy and weak, and they often choked on their own tongues. To blame was a mutation on their X chromosomes, in a gene that codes for a shock-absorbing muscle protein called dystrophin.
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