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Human genome editing: Promise and Peril

Unexpected Elements

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Is There a Case for Treating Sickle Cell Disease?

Gene editing could be used to treat diseases such as sickle cell disease before birth, says Dr. Anthony Fauci. The potential of CRISPR is "mind blowing stuff that few of us I expect had thought about," he adds. But there are more pressing reasons to treat disease this way than for gene-editing in the future, according to Fauci and his colleagues.

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