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Epigenetics

How Epigenetics is Changing the Future of Disease Treatment

The history of treating genetic diseases is a constant endeavor to decipher the biological code of life. While this process was initially quite crude,...

A “Molecular Editor” Could Cure Prion and Other Neurodegenerative Diseases

Diseases caused by toxic proteins, such as Creutzfeldt-Jakob syndrome (CJD), may soon become curable. A molecular editor called CHARM effectively "turns off" the disease...