WASHINGTON, May 18 — A US infant with a rare condition has become history’s first patient to be treated with a personalised gene-editing technique that raises hopes for other...
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“You Google ‘CPS1 deficiency’ and it’s either fatality rate or liver transplant,” the baby’s mother, Nicole Muldoon, says in a video released by Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, where the baby was treated. “The drug is really designed only for KJ, so the genetic variants that he has are specific to him. It’s personalised medicine,” said Rebecca Ahrens-Nicklas, a member of the medical team who specialises in paediatric genetics.
KJ can now follow a diet richer in proteins — his condition prohibited such before — and does not need as much medicine as he used to.
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