Tag: CRISPR

  • A Patient Will Fight Lung Cancer With CRISPR-Edited Cells

    A Patient Will Fight Lung Cancer With CRISPR-Edited Cells

    Chinese scientists have injected a person with cells that have been tweaked by the genome-editing technique, CRISPR, for the very first time. The procedure was part of a clinical trial led by oncologist Lu You at the West China Hospital in Chengdu. The procedure involved editing immune cells from a patient with aggressive lung cancer…