"Doctors have for the first time tested a powerful gene-editing technique in people with cancer" -- NYTIMES
Fact check: CRISPR employed in treating cancer many times in China already.
Risk of US-centric view = miss the action.
nytimes.com/2019/11/06/hea…
Fact check: CRISPR employed in treating cancer many times in China already.
Risk of US-centric view = miss the action.
nytimes.com/2019/11/06/hea…
Here's a WSJ story documenting pretty convincingly previous use of CRISPR in cancer treatment. wsj.com/articles/china…
If anyone has it, I would like to see the PR from the University of Pennsylvania on their CRISPR test, because it might be the source of the error.
h/t to @jess_devonport for pointing me to a version of the press release. It's kind of muddy but does say "first-in-us" in headline.
eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2…
eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2…
@jess_devonport A tweeter notes that the word "in" ("in people") also imperfect, since in the cancer application CRISPR is added to immune cells while they are outside the body.
@jess_devonport Story was updated. Wording slightly ambiguous. No correction appended. That's life publishing on the Web.
