Baby receives world's first personalized gene-editing treatment | DW News

The age of gene therapy is fast approaching. Doctors first started trying to heal genetic disorders back in 1990. Three-and-a-half decades later, they can now chalk up success stories like KJ Muldoon, a baby born with a rare, life-threatening metabolic disorder caused by a faulty gene. A cutting-edge therapy targeting the defect appears to have dramatically helped the little patient, and doctors are hopeful the results will last. Hundreds of millions of people worldwide suffer from genetic disorders that might soon be fixable. Here’s how it works.

00:00 How gene-editing works

03:32 Julian Grünewald, Assistant Professor of Gene Editing

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