First Trial of CRISPR-Edited T cells in Lung Cancer.

The clinical application of CRISPR-Cas9 gene editing has been eagerly awaited since the first description of the technique in 2013. Lu and colleagues now describe the treatment of 12 patients with nonsmall-cell lung cancer (NSCLC) with PD-1 gene-edited bulk autologous T cells, with results supporting both the feasibility and safety of gene editing in cell therapy.