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A nine-month-old baby has become the first person ever to be successfully treated with personalized gene editing therapy. Researchers corrected a specific gene mutation in baby KJ Muldoon‘s ...

They would use a technology known as CRISPR, a personalized gene-editing therapy, to find the one uniquely mutated gene out of 20,000 in his little body, and fix it. KJ subsequently received three ...

A baby boy with a devastating genetic disease is thriving after becoming the first known person to receive a bespoke, CRISPR therapy-for-one, designed to correct his specific disease-causing ...

This baby boy was treated with the first personalized gene-editing drug Doctors say they constructed a bespoke gene-editing treatment in less than seven months and used it to treat a baby with a ...

J.’s therapy “a pinnacle of personalized medicine.” But he wonders whether future development and deployment of such bespoke therapies will be confined to academic institutions, given the ...

KJ Muldoon, of Clifton Heights, is among the first to be successfully treated with a personalized CRISPR therapy, or gene-editing therapy. He was diagnosed with a rare and life-threatening ...

A US infant with a rare condition has become history's first patient to be treated with a personalized gene-editing technique that raises hopes for other people with obscure illnesses, doctors said ...

NEW ORLEANS – Investigators developed a personalized base-editing therapy for an infant with a urea cycle disorder and treated him with the bespoke therapy within a few months of his birth, according ...

The baby's disease prevented the liver from removing ammonia Half of babies with the disease die in their first week of life The baby has already shown signs of improvement The baby's disease ...

(NewsNation) — Doctors used personal gene therapy to treat an infant with a deadly genetic disease in a medical first. KJ Muldoon was born in August of 2024, and DNA sequencing revealed he had ...

Though it may be a while before similar personalized treatments are available for others, doctors hope the technology can someday help the millions left behind even as genetic medicine has ...