Baby is healed with first personalized gene-editing treatment

> 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.

> 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

Walter Isaacson's book "The Code Breaker" is about this subject. I couldn't put it down.