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A mom’s brave decision helped save her baby’s life—and may change medicine for millions
This is the first step towards the use of gene editing therapies to treat a wide variety of rare genetic disorders for which ...
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US baby with rare illness treated with tailor-made gene edit
A United States (US) infant with a rare condition has become history's first patient to be treated with a personalised ...
Doctors save baby's life with first-ever gene fix for deadly rare disease
The goal is to reuse key parts of the treatment and simply swap in a custom set of instructions for each patient's specific ...
Infant becomes world's first patient to undergo personalized gene-editing treatment
KJ Muldoon became the first patient to undergo personalized CRISPR treatment, a therapy that found the one uniquely mutated gene out of 20,000 in his little body, and fixed it.
Dr. Sanjay Gupta: At the forefront of organ transplants, patients are the pioneers
The story of transplants has always been one of altruism. After all, organs can be neither sold nor purchased. They can only ...
The remarkable timeline of a custom gene-editing therapy to save a newborn
News broke yesterday that researchers in Philadelphia appear to have successfully treated a 6-month-old baby boy, called KJ, ...