Chinese team uses base editing to repair genetic disease in human embryo

Wednesday, August 29, 2018 - 07:50 in Biology & Nature

A team of researchers in China has used a form of the CRISPR gene editing technique to repair a genetic defect in a viable human embryo. In their paper published in the journal Molecular Therapy, the group describes their work and how well it worked.

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