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Nature Physics/Materials Science

Gene Editing Gets a Zip Code: Targeting Only the Cells You Want

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It's like a postal system for medicine—instead of sending a letter to an entire city, scientists can now address it to a single house on a single street inside your body.

This means CRISPR and other gene therapies could finally become precise enough to avoid off-target damage, which opens the door to treating genetic diseases without harming healthy tissue nearby.


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