After three decades of hopes tempered by setbacks, gene therapy - the process of treating a disease by modifying a person's DNA - is no longer the future of medicine, but is part of the present-day clinical treatment toolkit. [1] We celebrate the curing of diseases. We fantasize about beating death. And yet, we are alive only because we do die. Look at you. Knowing that one day you will perish. And yet, feeling that it doesn’t matter. There you go. Without CRISPR. You just made your genes disappear…
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