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Baby is healed with first personalized gene-editing treatment

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1167 points jbredeche | 1 comments | 15 May 25 18:06 UTC | HN request time: 0.199s | source
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voidUpdate ◴[16 May 25 14:07 UTC] No.44005708[source]▶
Could this be used to actually change the DNA of transgender people?
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1. idontwantthis ◴[16 May 25 18:35 UTC] No.44008541[source]▶
That’s an entire chromosome throughout every cell in the body. This is a single gene change in one type of cell.

No.