Gene editing

[Turnedlight]

Given all the talk about the amazing, wonderful recovery of a baby with leukaemia after gene therapy, I wondered if it will ever be possible to apply to other conditions such as psoriasis - or is there no faulty gene at work in psoriasis?
Maybe someone with a better grasp of this might know if it's a potential future treatment?

[jiml]

Given all the talk about the amazing, wonderful recovery of a baby with leukaemia after gene therapy, I wondered if it will ever be possible to apply to other conditions such as psoriasis - or is there no faulty gene at work in psoriasis?
Maybe someone with a better grasp of this might know if it's a potential future treatment?

I watched a bit about it on TV last night and was amazed when they explained the procedure, I had the same thought as you about will they ever be able to manipulate our genes so they can stop psoriasis.

But I have no idea if it will be possible but I'm sure someone will be looking at all the possibilities.

We can but live in hope and maybe someone here will have an idea  

[Kat]

It's amazing what they can do now and will probably be even more amazing years from now. A bit scary too though. I'm all for using it for cures, but one day I wouldn't be surprised if babies will simply be made to order and I'm not sure that's such a good idea. This stuff is WAY over my head though!

[Caroline]

Yes, genes are without doubt part of the causes for psoriasis.
Prof. Dr. Van de Kerkhof, mentioned a few numbers, can't exActly reproduce them, but if you have one parent who has psoriasis, your chance as a child is about 10% to get it. If also a brother of sister has it, your chance increases to 40% if your two parents have it, you are between 50-70% chance.

This proves that genes are part of it.

But if you can switch if off by switching off genes ??? I would not know. Perhaps you can find the genes in an early stage and then do a genetherapy in advance... But when the disease already has started? I would not know. At that moment it is already in your cells.

But who knows.