How CRISPR is tackling the troubling immune response that’s plagued gene therapy until now

Sep12
by on September 12, 2020 at 8:00 am
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One of the major challenges facing gene therapy — a way to treat disease by replacing a patient’s defective genes with healthy ones — is that it is difficult to safely deliver therapeutic genes to patients without the immune system destroying the gene, and the vehicle carrying it, which can trigger life-threatening widespread inflammation. Three decades ago researchers thought that gene therapy would be the ultimate treatment for genetically inherited diseases like hemophilia, sickle cell anemia, and genetic diseases of metabolism. But the technology couldn’t dodge the immune response. Since then, researchers have been looking for ways to perfect the…

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The UK’s first EV-only service station set to open soon

Sep11
by on September 11, 2020 at 1:37 pm
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Remember that electric vehicle only service station that was being built in the UK earlier this year? Well, it’s nearly complete and ready to open. Back in March, Gridserve, the company leading the construction of the EV service station said that it would be ready to open this summer. Well, coronavirus may have slowed it down slightly, and it now looks set to open towards the end of summer, but still, it’s great to see it become a reality. In an announcement earlier today, Gridserve lifted the lid on more details on what it’ll look like and what services will…

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