First-ever in-body prime editing treatment injected into a human
basedjensen · x · 2026-10-23
A human has reportedly been injected for the first time with a treatment designed to rewrite DNA directly inside the body using prime editing. If it works, it would mark the first successful in-vivo correction of a genetic mutation with prime editing — a milestone in moving base/prime editing therapies from ex-vivo cell work into living patients.
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