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In this undated photo provided by the Oregon Health & Science University on Wednesday, March 4, 2020, Dr. Mark Pennesi, who leads OHSU's involvement in the trial, center right, looks on as staff at school's Casey Eye Institute perform the first-ever in vivo CRISPR gene edit procedure for the BRILLIANCE clinical trial in Portland, on a patient who had an inherited form of blindness. It may take up to a month to see if it worked to restore vision. (Kristyna Wentz-Graff/OHSU via AP)

In this undated photo provided by the Oregon Health & Science University on Wednesday, March 4, 2020, Dr. Mark Pennesi, who leads OHSU's involvement in the trial, center right, looks on as staff at school's Casey Eye Institute perform the first-ever in vivo CRISPR gene edit procedure for the BRILLIANCE clinical trial in Portland, on a patient who had an inherited form of blindness. It may take up to a month to see if it worked to restore vision. (Kristyna Wentz-Graff/OHS…

March 4, 2020

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Doctors try 1st CRISPR editing in the body for blindness
March 4, 2020 11:48 a.m.

Doctors try 1st CRISPR editing in the body for blindness

Scientists say they have used the gene editing tool CRISPR inside someone's body for the first time, a new frontier for efforts to operate on DNA, the chemical code of life, to treat diseases.