Infants Receive Groundbreaking Personalized Gene-Editing Treatment
Thursday, May 15, 2025, 1:21 pm
In an unprecedented medical breakthrough, doctors developed and deployed a tailor-made CRISPR treatment to combat a newborn’s life‐threatening metabolic disorder. The rapid, bespoke therapy marks a pivotal moment in personalized medicine and could signal a new era for addressing rare genetic conditions.
A team of doctors and scientists have successfully treated a rare genetic condition with the first-ever personalized gene-editing therapy. Results of the groundbreaking treatment have been published in The New England Journal of Medicine, with an accompanying editorial by a doctor who had…
Doctors say they constructed a bespoke gene-editing treatment in less than seven months and used it to treat a baby with a deadly metabolic condition. The rapid-fire attempt to rewrite the child’s DNA marks the first time gene editing has been tailored to treat a single individual, according to a…
The Crispr therapy was tailored to the baby’s specific condition and could provide a template for others.
Scientists were able to create a bespoke treatment for KJ Muldoon’s rare genetic disorder within six months. It could be a blueprint for potentially life-saving, gene-editing Crispr therapies.
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