• A teenage girl’s incurable cancer has been cleared from her body in the first use of a revolutionary new type of medicine.
• All other treatments for Alyssa’s leukaemia had failed.
• So doctors at Great Ormond Street Hospital used “base editing” to perform a feat of biological engineering to build her a new living drug.
• Six months later the cancer is undetectable, but Alyssa is still being monitored in case it comes back.

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