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Doctors try 1st CRISPR editing in the body for blindness

by AP Chief Medical Writer
| March 5, 2020 12:05 AM

Scientists say they have used the gene editing tool CRISPR inside someone's body for the first time, a new frontier for efforts to operate on DNA, the chemical code of life, to treat diseases.

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