Baby is healed with first personalized gene-editing treatment

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?

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.

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