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Researchers at the Broad Institute and The Jackson Laboratory have used prime editing, a precise and versatile form of gene editing, to correct the root cause of alternating hemiplegia of childhood (AHC), a debilitating genetic condition, in mice. The team used a scalable approach to develop prime editing treatments that directly repaired five different AHC-causing genetic mutations. Mice that received the treatment had far fewer and less severe symptoms of AHC, and survived more than twice as long as untreated mice.
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