Useful in a variety of clincial applications, including: poor digestion, slow liver, bad breath, hepatitis, poisoning and food poisoning, milk thistle promotes the health of liver and gallbladder tissues. (nationalnutrition.ca)
The former target, say, using gene editing techniques to inactivate HIV receptors and achieve resistance of blood cells to the virus (which Sangamo BioSciences is working on in clincial trials) is different than helping parents who both carry genes for Huntington's Disease to have a child that is free of the disease (a change to the genome that would be passed on to future generations and would likely not be very commonly needed). (scientificamerican.com)
«They also concluded that «there is a moral obligation to collect and share all data generated, including from treatments provided for compassionate use «and «a moral duty to evaluate these interventions (for treatment or prevention) in the best possible clincial trials under the circumstances.» (sciencemag.org)