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Baby is healed with first personalized gene-editing treatment

(www.nytimes.com)
1160 points jbredeche | 1 comments | 15 May 25 18:06 UTC | HN request time: 0.338s | source
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adamredwoods ◴[16 May 25 03:54 UTC] No.44001700[source]▶
Let's be specific, they don't know if he is fully cured. They need more time to conclude efficacy.
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1. Cthulhu_ ◴[16 May 25 10:54 UTC] No.44003839[source]▶
While true, so far so good - the baby is 9 1/2 months old now, whereas they had a life expectancy of a week earlier without intervention.