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Baby is healed with first personalized gene-editing treatment

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1160 points jbredeche | 1 comments | 15 May 25 18:06 UTC | HN request time: 0.263s | source
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colechristensen ◴[15 May 25 19:25 UTC] No.43998409[source]▶
>KJ has made medical history. The baby, now 9 ½ months old, became the first patient of any age to have a custom gene-editing treatment, according to his doctors.

This is _not_ the first human to be treated with a treatment under the wide umbrella of gene therapy based on their own edited genes. There probably is a more narrow first here but the technical details get lost in journalism which is a shame.

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autoexec ◴[15 May 25 19:29 UTC] No.43998437[source]▶
Okay, I'll bite: Who then was the first patient of any age to have a custom gene-editing treatment?
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1. jfarlow ◴[15 May 25 19:35 UTC] No.43998483[source]▶
This is an AI-generated response, and is inaccurate.

That was one of the first cases of _germline_ gene editing using CRISPR - NOT "the first instance of gene editing." There have been quite a few other genetic editing tools that predate CRISPR, and there have been other edits using CRISPR that were not of the entire human's genome.