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colechristensen ◴[] 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 ◴[] 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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sigzero[dead post] ◴[] No.43998451[source]
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1. roywiggins ◴[] No.43998501{3}[source]
That is not accurate, attempts at gene therapy in humans go back further than that.

https://www.whatisbiotechnology.org/index.php/science/summar...