For Patients Needing Transplants, Hope Arrives on Tiny Hooves

For Patients Needing Transplants, Hope Arrives on Tiny Hooves

More than 100,000 Americans are on waiting lists for donor organs, most needing a kidney. Only 25,000 human donor kidneys become available each year. Twelve Americans on the kidney list die every day on average. Scientists first transplanted genetically engineered pig organs into other animals and then to brain-dead human patients. In 2022, researchers received…

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Mutated DNA Restored to Normal in Gene Therapy Advance

Mutated DNA Restored to Normal in Gene Therapy Advance

Researchers have corrected a disease-causing gene mutation with a single infusion carrying a treatment that precisely targeted the errant gene. This was the first time a mutated gene has been restored to normal. The small study of nine patients announced Monday by the company Beam Therapeutics of Cambridge, Mass., involved fixing a spelling error involving…

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