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MIT team reverses a liver disorder in mice by correcting a mutated gene

• czottmann 13y ago
  > The findings, described in the March 30 issue of Nature Biotechnology, offer the first evidence that this gene-editing technique, known as CRISPR, can reverse disease symptoms in living animals. CRISPR, which offers an easy way to snip out mutated DNA and replace it with the correct sequence, holds potential for treating many genetic disorders, according to the research team. This gives me the good kind of chills. I've been following CRISPR research for a few months by now as apparently it's a highly promising way of surgical DNA editing. (I'm not a scientist, just a very interested hobbyist.)