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if you read the Original Article close enough, You will see the subtle point here:

>If this is successfully applied in young patients, it has the potential to prevent irreversible complications of the disease

How young is this going to be, One years old, 1 month old...

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Bone marrow transplants as a treatment for SA are already a thing. All this does is make it so you can use the patient's own bone marrow instead of a donor, hopefully reducing rejection. There's no subtle point to be made, the question you're asking is a solved one, because it's just a modification of an existing therapy.

Now, compare that to editing human embryos in vitro then implanting them, just because you want to prove it's possible to use a gene editing technique to alter the genome of a person.

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