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Gene therapy shows promise as blindness treatment – FOX 10 News Phoenix

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2018-02-18 NEWS

FOX 10 News Phoenix

Gene therapy shows promise as blindness treatment
FOX 10 News Phoenix
Tests showed patients improved in about a month. “They could detect light tens of thousands of times better,” Hauswirth continued. Patients didn’t notice the difference until a year later, because the brain had to learn to interpret the new information

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2018-02-18 NEWS

Fox 32 Chicago

Gene therapy shows promise as blindness treatment
Fox 32 Chicago
Tests showed patients improved in about a month. “They could detect light tens of thousands of times better,” Hauswirth continued. Patients didn’t notice the difference until a year later, because the brain had to learn to interpret the new information

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2018-02-18 NEWS

CRISPR scissors, Cas12a, enable cutting-edge diagnostics
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She said: ‘We continue to be fascinated by the functions of bacterial CRISPR systems and how mechanistic understanding leads to opportunities for new technologies.’ ‘CRISPR-Cas12a, [a]DNA-cutting protein, has an unexpected side effect that makes it an

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2018-02-17 NEWS

Japan Today

Can gene therapy be harnessed to fight the AIDS virus? – Japan Today
Japan Today
For more than a decade, the strongest AIDS drugs could not fully control Matt Chappell’s HIV infection. Now his body controls it by itself, and researchers are trying to perfect the gene editing that made this possible. Scientists removed some of his
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