You are helping your professor grade an assignment about

Last updated: 8/16/2023

You are helping your professor grade an assignment about biotechnology To the question Explain how beneficial you foresee CRISPR Cas9 therapy will be in immediate future a student replied I think it will be great everyone with a genetic disease will able to be cured Which would be the best feedback to provide the student You have forgotten that everyone will require different crRNAS so CRISPR Cas9 might not work for everyone CRISPR Cas9 therapy is more suitable for generating pharmaceutical products compared to gene therapy You have to recall that CRISPR is involved in treating viral infections not genetic diseases Exactly my thoughts isn t biotechnology an exciting field This would be a great result of this technology but have you considered how expensive this technology still is do you think everyone will be able to afford it