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Infant becomes world's first patient to undergo personalized gene-editing treatment

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KJ Muldoon is the first known patient in the world to be treated using CRISPR personalized just for him.

He has so far shown no serious side effects to the treatment, Penn Medicine says.

"This is mind-blowing and we should all be very, very excited," a bioengineer says.

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