Instead of requiring personalized gene edits for each patient, the new approach could create a standardized method to use for many diseases.
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David R. Liu, a biologist at the Broad Institute and Harvard, is the lead author of a new study of a gene-editing strategy that could be standardized for multiple people with rare diseases.
At an international conference, researchers at the forefront of animal-human transplantation compared notes and allowed themselves the first real optimism in decades.