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Abstract
The first clinical studies utilizing RNA-guided endonucleases (RGENs) to therapeutically edit RNA and DNA in cancer patients were recently published. These groundbreaking technological advances promise to revolutionize genetic therapy and, as I discuss, represent the culmination of decades of innovative work to engineer RGENs for such editing applications.
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