By Philippa Warr - A technique which allows genetic editing has been successfully tested on human cells meaning that genetic medicine -- previously an expensive and complex endeavour -- could become simple and affordable.
The process was discovered in 2012 by Jennifer Doudna and Martin Jinek of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute at the University of California, Berkeley working with Emmanuelle Charpentier of the Laboratory for Molecular Infection Medicine Sweden. Initially it described genomic editing in bacterial cells but has now been tested on human DNA .
