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Amna Arshad, Maryam Noor, Amna Amjad, Moiza Noor, Riffat Seemab, Usva Siddique.

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The CRISPR term is a short name for the term Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats. It has demonstrated good therapeutic potential in altering the genetic mutations that cause genetic disorders that cannot be cured. Besides therapeutic opportunities, CRISPR can enable the generation of animal models to understand how diseases appear and progress, and, in addition to understanding the impact of new drugs. Most of the genetic diseases, such as cancer, allergies, cardiovascular diseases, viral diseases, cystic fibrosis, Huntington’s disease, metabolic diseases, blood diseases, and eye-related diseases, can be treated through CRISPR. Pharmaceutical and treatment corporations are working on the synthesis of CRISPR treatment strategies against heritable ailments and are wary of the misdirected impacts of CRISPR, as well as its moral, political and security concerns. CRISPR is a promising technology to use in the future to treat diseases, create medicines and promote agricultural practices.

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