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The Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children in London has preformed the world's first base editing treatment for a 13-year-old patient's once "incurable" T-cell leukemia to rid her body of cancer. #cancer #geneediting #baseediting #cancertreatment #Leukemia #CGTNAmerica

Invented six years ago, base editing uses the four bases of the building blocks of the human genetic code: adenine (A), cytosine (C), guanine (G) and thymine (T). #cancer #geneediting #baseediting #newcancertreatment #cancertreatment #Leukemia #CGTNAmerica

Scientists alter the structure of a base, converting it to another and changing the genetic instructions. The hospital used this technology to edit and create a new type of T-cell that finds and destroys T-cells, including leukemic T-cells. #geneediting #baseediting #Leukemia

The patient then got a bone marrow transplant to restore her depleted immune system. Six months after the procedure, her cancer is now undetectable, the BBC reports. LEARN MORE: gosh.nhs.uk/news/gosh-pati….

#cancer #baseediting #cancertreatment #Leukemia #CGTNAmerica