BBC News October 15, 2018
Lying back on his hospital bed, Brian Madeux gives a tense smile as he’s hooked up to an intravenous drip. Inside the bag of liquid above his head are billions of tiny fragments of DNA designed to be inserted into his genome, the biological instruction manual found in every cell of the body.
We are at the start of a new frontier of genomic medicine
The 44-year-old from Phoenix, Arizona, who has lived with a rare, life-threatening genetic condition known as Hunter’s Syndrome since birth, last November became the first person in the world to undergo a new type of treatmentthat edits genes inside his body.
Minute “molecular scissors” were added to his bloodstream to snip the DNA...
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