One confusing thing I have found when reading articles about possible CRISPR based gene therapy treatments in humans is that there is vey little discussion about what percentage of your cells will actually have their DNA edited, the rate at which the editing takes place, and how to quantitatively estimate how many edited cells would be needed to "cure" a specific disease. (It's not so confusing how edits could be made to a small embryo, what's confusing is what is actually possible for grown patients)
Can someone provide a few basic facts that calibrate what is currently possible and what is needed.
For instance, is it currently possible to edit more than 50% of the cells of an adult nematode (or more complicated organism) using CRISPR? How long does it take (minutes, hours, days, weeks).
For the current list of human diseases that are possible targets for gene therapy, how many cells need to be edited for one of those diseases to be "cured" (hundreds, thousands, billions, etc)
But in general is there a name for the mathematical models that try to predict how many cells will end up being edited, how those edited cells will multiply and replace diseased tissue, and how many edits are needed to generate a concentration of missing protein for a treatment to be successful?
cheers!