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Medical first: Doctors attempt to gene-edit a living patient's DNA

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Medical first: Doctors attempt to gene-edit a living patient's DNA

By Susan Scutti, CNN


A man may soon be forever free of the previously incurable disease he was born with 44 years ago. On Monday, in a medical first, Brian Madeux received an experimental in-body gene-editing treatment intended to cure him of Mucopolysaccharidoses II, known as MPS II or Hunter syndrome, a rare disorder that causes progressive damage to the body's cells.

http://edition.cnn.com/2017/11/15/h...al&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer
 
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