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Oceane Duboust

Baby with rare genetic disorder treated in world-first with personalised gene-editing therapy

A baby in the US is among the first people with a rare genetic disorder to be treated with CRISPR, a customised gene-editing therapy that allows scientists to edit DNA.

The baby, known as KJ, was diagnosed soon after his birth with a rare disorder called severe carbamoyl-phosphate synthetase 1 deficiency (CPS1), which is estimated to affect about one in a million babies.

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