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Mar 2020

Doctors in US use CRISPR gene editing tool inside patient’s body to treat rare form of blindness

In a world first, doctors at Casey Eye Institute at Oregon Health & Science have used the CRISPR gene-editing tool inside the human body, a new frontier for efforts to operate on DNA, the chemical code of life, to treat diseases. The procedure was recently undertaken at the institute on a patient with an inherited…

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