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Gene-silencing: 'New class' of medicine reverses disease porphyria


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  • Location: Camborne
  • Location: Camborne

Doctors have used a new type of medicine called "gene silencing" to reverse a disease that leaves people in crippling pain.The condition, acute intermittent porphyria, also causes paralysis and is fatal in some cases.

The novel approach fine-tunes the genetic instructions locked in our DNA.Doctors say they are "genuinely surprised" how successful it is and that the same approach could be used in previously untreatable diseases.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-47907971

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