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Doctors In China Lead Race To Treat Cancer By Editing Genes

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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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