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Doctors In China Lead Race To Treat Cancer By Editing Genes

Shaorong Deng gets an experimental treatment for cancer of the esophagus that uses his own immune system cells. They have been genetically modified with the gene-editing technique known as CRISPR. (Yuhan Xu/NPR)
Shaorong Deng gets an experimental treatment for cancer of the esophagus that uses his own immune system cells. They have been genetically modified with the gene-editing technique known as CRISPR. (Yuhan Xu/NPR)

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