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What a name for a company:

Excision may refer to:

* ...

* Type II female genital mutilation

It just means "cutting out" in a medical context. I'd say the fact that you can cut out genitalia is very tangential.

In molecular biology it refers to removing a sequence of genetic material, so it's quite appropriate for this therapy.

This is digging deep to find a reason for outrage and it didn't work. There's no connection between their work and FGM.