For the first time ever, a patient will fight lung cancer with CRISPR-edited cells

For the first time ever, Chinese scientists have injected a person with cells that have been tweaked by the genome-editing technique CRISPR, Nature reports. The procedure was part of a clinical trial led by oncologist Lu You at the West China Hospital in Chengdu; it involved editing immune cells from a patient with aggressive lung cancer and then injecting them back into the patient to help defeat the disease.
Trials with modified cells have been run before. But this is the first time that scien