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1Department of Biological and Biomedical Sciences , Aga Khan University , Karachi 74800 Pakistan.
Abstract:
The ultimate outcome in genome-editing research stepped into unknown territories last month when two babies were brought into the world with clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats (CRISPR)-CRISPR-associated protein 9 (Cas9) facilitated knockdown of chemokine receptor 5 (CCR5). An immediate outcry by the public and the scientific community followed, which is still ongoing with much apprehensions and criticism of the ethical and scientific aspects of the procedure and its effects on the future of genome editing needed in other stubborn inheritable diseases for which there is no cure at present. With the debate on the consequences of this particular receptor knockdown still going on and the after-shocks in the form of queries expected to continue for some time in the future, we enter the arena of this particular genome editing as first responders with concerns regarding the neurological aftermath of CCR5 knockout in the babies born.
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