IN A 1ST, SCIENTISTS USE REVOLUTIONARY GENE-EDITING TOOL TO EDIT INSIDE A PATIENT

IN A 1ST, SCIENTISTS USE REVOLUTIONARY GENE-EDITING TOOL TO EDIT INSIDE A PATIENT

Scientists at the Casey Eye Institute, in Portland, Ore., have have injected a harmless virus containing CRISPR gene-editing instructions inside the retinal cells of a patient with a rare form of genetic blindness.
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