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The moving finger

DNA-cleaving enzymes trigger a repair process that can now be harnessed to correct mutations in the human genome in vitro. This represents another step towards gene-correction strategies for treating human disease.

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Figure 1: Gene correction.

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High, K. The moving finger. Nature 435, 577–579 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1038/435577a

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