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The slow climb from innovation to cure: treating anaemia with gene editing

  • Written by Merlin Crossley, Deputy Vice-Chancellor Education and Professor of Molecular Biology, UNSW Australia
imageGene editing technology may soon prevent the formation of sickle-shaped red blood cells in a common and deadly form of anaemia. Shutterstock/Uber Images

The ability to precisely edit DNA via CRISPR technology has emerged as the one of the most powerful advances in biology. A new paper showing repair of a genetic mutation in human blood cells...

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