Tippi MacKenzie envisions doing surgery without scalpels or sutures, editing fetal genes to prevent inherited disorders.

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Laura Morton for STAT Meet the fetal surgeon forging CRISPR's next frontier: curing diseases in the womb Pediatric surgeon Tippi MacKenzie at the University of California, San Francisco, wants to treat genetic diseases before birth. Fetal genome surgery, if safe, could be a game-changer. Read more. By Megan Molteni

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