Couple pay >$800k for a gene-editing therapy for their daughter. She died.

Hacker News points to a report about a couple who paid more than eight hundred thousand dollars for an experimental gene-editing therapy for their daughter. According to the item, published Thursday, the girl died. Gene editing refers to techniques that alter a patient's DNA to treat disease; the feed does not include further detail on the case.

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