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posted by CoolHand on Thursday November 17 2016, @02:52AM   Printer-friendly
from the we-like-our-peoples-CRISPY dept.

A Chinese group has become the first to inject a person with cells that contain genes edited using the revolutionary CRISPR–Cas9 technique. On 28 October, a team led by oncologist Lu You at Sichuan University in Chengdu delivered the modified cells into a patient with aggressive lung cancer as part of a clinical trial at the West China Hospital, also in Chengdu.

Earlier clinical trials using cells edited with a different technique have excited clinicians. The introduction of CRISPR, which is simpler and more efficient than other techniques, will probably accelerate the race to get gene-edited cells into clinics across the world, says Carl June, who specializes in immunotherapy at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia and led one of the earlier studies.

"I think this is going to trigger 'Sputnik 2.0', a biomedical duel on progress between China and the United States, which is important since competition usually improves the end product," he says.

http://www.nature.com/news/crispr-gene-editing-tested-in-a-person-for-the-first-time-1.20988


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  • (Score: 1) by j-beda on Thursday November 17 2016, @03:19PM

    by j-beda (6342) on Thursday November 17 2016, @03:19PM (#428137) Homepage

    Best "Mr. Sandman" rewrite: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k99bMtg4zRk [youtube.com]

    CRISPR-Cas9
    Bring me a gene
    Encoding for a specific protein
    Make a few snips at this coded locus
    You work so well inside a streptococcus
    Cas9
    I'm so alone
    Without your scissors in my chromosome
    Cut me up and do it clean
    CRISPR-Cas9 bring me a gene ....