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Medical first: Doctors attempt to gene-edit a living patient’s DNA – CNN

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2017-11-16 NEWS

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Medical first: Doctors attempt to gene-edit a living patient’s DNA
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Conner explained that “it’s also a monogenetic disease: You have a mutation in one gene.” This simplicity is helpful when testing the experimental gene therapy, he said, but there’s another good reason to target Hunter syndrome: Patients are “still
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Senate committee hearing on CRISPR technology features Stanford researcher
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Senator Lamar Alexander, R-Tenn., said he got the idea for holding the hearing when he was fishing in Alaska and listening to the radio for the weather forecast when he heard a story about CRISPR. “I took notes and was fascinated, and I thought, ‘one

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2017-11-15 NEWS

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A breakthrough in stem cell therapy saved a boy’s life after doctors successfully reconstructed his skin
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The German doctors reached out to Dr. Michele De Luca, an Italian stem cell expert who heads the Center for Regenerative Medicine at the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, to see if a transplant of genetically modified skin cells might be possible.