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by jonmrodriguez 3995 days ago
Would the DEC2 mutation be amenable to being given to adults via a gene therapy?
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I don't think anybody here is capable of answering that. We simply haven't tried anything like that on humans. We have the technology called CRISPR/Cas, which was used (successfully) to cure adult mice of genetic liver disease.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CRISPR