Treating Genetic Disease: Is a Cure a Cut Away?

On the cusp of moving from the lab to patients, genetic surgery offers new hope to those suffering from debilitating disorders

By Lisa Krieger

CONVENTIONAL SURGERY can’t help patients such as Delaney Van Riper, a 19-year-old college student with an independent spirit, love of literature and progressive neurological disease.

But gene surgery might.

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