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CRISPR is coming for your body. While that may sound like the tagline of a horror film, it's potentially the future of medicine, as the gene-editing technique is about to be used for the first time inside the bodies of presumably willing patients. CRISPR（成簇规律间隔的短回文重复序列，近年来被认为是原核生物适应性免疫结构）即将进入你的身体。虽然这听上去可能有点像一部恐怖电影的口号，但这也许是医药研究的未来，因为基因编辑技术将首次被用于想必是自愿接受的病人的身体上。 The first trial could be an impressive feat of modern medicine: Scientists hope to use CRISPR's gene-editing magic to restore sight to people with an inherited form of blindness called Leber congenital amaurosis. 这次尝试可能是现代医药的一次令人印象深刻的壮举：科学家希望利用CRISPR基因编辑的魔力来恢复遗传性失明（又被称为莱伯士先天性黑朦）的人的视力。 It's the most common cause of inherited childhood blindness, occurring in about 2 to 3 of every 100,000 births, according to the AP. 据美国联合通讯社报道，这是儿童遗传性失明最常见的原因，每十万个新生儿中就会有2~3个人患有遗传性失明。 | 
