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For a decade after its discovery, CRISPR gene editing was stuck on the cusp of transforming medicine. Then, in 2023, scientists started using it on sickle-cell disease, and Victoria Gray, a patient ...

To the research team working to save him, KJ Muldoon was first known only as Patient Eta. But within months, KJ’s name — and megawatt, chubby-cheeked smile — would be splashed across newspapers and ...

Now, Musunuru and colleagues are preparing a master clinical protocol to study a CRISPR therapy that's mostly the same as the one they used to treat baby KJ, except they plan to swap out the gene ...