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CRISPR-Gold Fixes Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy Mutation in Mice

14:33 EDT 4 Oct 2017 | BioScience Technology

Scientists at the University of California, Berkeley, have engineered a new way to deliver CRISPR-Cas9 gene-editing technology inside cells and have demonstrated in mice that the technology can repair the mutation that causes Duchenne muscular dystrophy, a severe muscle-wasting disease.
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