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dmixyesterday at 9:38 PM1 replyview on HN

So it was a regulatory escape hatch for highly experimental medicine and it didn't work out?

> The girl would be the first person in the world to receive a gene-editing therapy directed at the brain.

The first person to ever try something comes with risks...


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ncallawayyesterday at 9:42 PM

And were those risks adequately communicated to the people taking them? According to the story, they weren't.

That's a Big Fucking Deal, and is absolutely a significant part of the story.

Was that in the headline?

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