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Baby is healed with first personalized gene-editing treatment

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1162 points jbredeche | 2 comments | 15 May 25 18:06 UTC | HN request time: 0.469s | source
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Brystephor ◴[16 May 25 05:20 UTC] No.44002059[source]▶
This is incredible work. Its jaw dropping to learn that something like this is possible at all. Sometimes I wish I could work for a company whose products make a meaningful positive contribution to the work.

Do companies like this have a need for SWEs? Are there opportunities for a backend SWE without any background in hardware or biology?

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1. rubidium ◴[16 May 25 08:56 UTC] No.44003191[source]▶
Yes. Aldevron and IDT are two companies (owned by danaher) that collaborated to make this happen. They have multiple authors listed in the NEJM article.

https://jobs.danaher.com/global/en/search-results?keywords=S...

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2. waiquoo ◴[16 May 25 12:57 UTC] No.44004909[source]▶
Mark Behlke's group at IDT is the force behind a LOT of the development of CRISPR, but they are relatively unknown