Finding a Treatment for ALS - Will Gene Editing Cut It?

N Engl J Med

From King's College London, Maurice Wohl Clinical Neuroscience Institute, Department of Basic and Clinical Neuroscience, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology, and Neuroscience, De Crespigny Park, and King's College Hospital, Denmark Hill - both in London (A.A.-C.); and the Department of Neurology, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester (R.H.B.).

Published: April 2018

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