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Quest to use CRISPR against disease gains ground

As the first clinical-trial results trickle in, researchers look ahead to more sophisticated medical applications for genome editing.
  1. Heidi Ledford
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The prospect of using the popular genome-editing tool CRISPR to treat a host of diseases in people is moving closer to reality.

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Nature 577, 156 (2020)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-019-03919-0

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