Gene-editing offers hope for people with potentially fatal hereditary disorder

Gene-editing offers hope for people with the potentially fatal disorder hereditary angioedema, researchers say (David Davies/PA)

A breakthrough gene therapy could offer hope to people with a potentially fatal hereditary condition, new research suggests.

A single treatment of a gene-editing therapy has transformed the lives of a group of patients from the UK, New Zealand and the Netherlands who have hereditary angioedema.