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Baby is healed with first personalized gene-editing treatment

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1174 points jbredeche | 2 comments | 15 May 25 18:06 UTC | HN request time: 0.533s | source
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MrZander ◴[15 May 25 19:30 UTC] No.43998447[source]▶
> To accomplish that feat, the treatment is wrapped in fatty lipid molecules to protect it from degradation in the blood on its way to the liver, where the edit will be made. Inside the lipids are instructions that command the cells to produce an enzyme that edits the gene. They also carry a molecular GPS — CRISPR — which was altered to crawl along a person’s DNA until it finds the exact DNA letter that needs to be changed.

That is one of the most incredible things I have ever read.

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jjtheblunt ◴[15 May 25 20:51 UTC] No.43999228[source]▶
> That is one of the most incredible things I have ever read.

This is even more great reading behind the above:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jennifer_Doudna

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ascorbic ◴[15 May 25 21:53 UTC] No.43999713[source]▶
A rare case where the list of awards she's received is so long it needs a separate Wikipedia page https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_awards_and_honors_rece...
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1. blangk ◴[15 May 25 22:09 UTC] No.43999843[source]▶
This seems like a non sequitur.
2. sgustard ◴[15 May 25 23:43 UTC] No.44000450[source]▶
I assign only the most nefarious motives to those clowns, but at least her govt profile is intact:

https://www.lbl.gov/people/excellence/nobelists/jennifer-dou...

The fact that this treatment "built on decades of federally funded research" is the scary part, given that such funding may disappear.