A baby born with a rare, life-threatening genetic disease is now thriving after receiving an experimental gene-editing treatment.
Baby KJ Muldoon was born with CPS1 deficiency, a condition that affects around one in a million babies.
He's one of the first to be successfully treated with a bespoke therapy targeting a tiny but deadly error in his DNA.
His doctors hope the technology could one day help the estimated 350 million people worldwide with rare diseases.
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