CRISPR

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Breakthrough gene editing treatment helps child born with rare disorder • May 19, 2025, 6:27 AM ET (PBS)

World's first successful tailor-made gene therapy saves baby born with rare disorder • May 16, 2025, 6:27 AM ET (CBS)

Infant becomes world's first patient to undergo personalized gene-editing treatment • May 16, 2025, 6:26 AM ET (CBS)

Personalized CRISPR treatment used on baby with genetic disease • May 15, 2025, 6:46 AM ET (The Hill)

The FDA Just Approved the First CRISPR-Edited Pigs for Food • May 3, 2025, 1:05 PM ET (Gizmodo)

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Also Known As	clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeat

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gene editing

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The 2020 Nobel Prize in Chemistry winners

Jennifer Doudna

American biochemist