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Gene Therapy Creates New Skin to Save a Dying Child – New York Times

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2017-11-08 NEWS

New York Times

Gene Therapy Creates New Skin to Save a Dying Child
New York Times
This was not the first use of the treatment, which adds gene therapy to a technique developed to grow skin grafts for burn victims. But it was by far the most body surface ever covered in a patient with a genetic disorder: nine square feet. The boy’s …
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2017-11-08 NEWS

National Post

End Canada’s criminal ban on contentious CRISPR gene-editing research, major science group urges
National Post
CRISPR is a system that allows scientists to relatively easily and inexpensively edit or alter genes, including those passed on from generation to generation. It is lauded as a having the potential — still unproven — to save or transform lives by …

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2017-11-08 NEWS

National Post

End Canada’s criminal ban on contentious CRISPR gene-editing research, major science group urges
National Post
CRISPR is a system that allows scientists to relatively easily and inexpensively edit or alter genes, including those passed on from generation to generation. It is lauded as a having the potential — still unproven — to save or transform lives by …