Medical advanced


Fair share of medical breakthroughs and pioneering research.
This has paved the way for several new advances we can expect in 2018.
Curing diseases through gene editing (CRISPR technology)
One of the big medical breakthroughs featured on Health24 this year was the technique to “edit” embryos to avoid genetic diseases.
This method holds potential for the treatment of many diseases, including retinaldegenerative disease and inherited diseases, such as cystic fibrosis and haemophilia.

It was reported in November 2017 that the FDA is set to approve a gene therapy for inherited retinal diseases. Many experts believe that this could pave the way to treatment for even more diseases.

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