Brain cells (artificially coloured) can be infected by a virus carrying the apperatus to correct disease-causing mutations. Credit: Nancy Kedersha/UCLA/Science Photo Library Scientists are closing in on the ability to apply genome editing to a formidable new target: the human brain. In the past two years, a spate of technological advances and promising results in mice have been laying the …
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