Genetic
Medicine
New “Base Editing” Therapy Cures Teen of Incurable Cancer
A form of biological engineering called "base editing" has cured a teenager's seemingly uncurable cancer in the United Kingdom.
Alyssa, a thirteen-year-old girl from Leicester, was diagnosed with T-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia (T-ALL) in May 2021. After chemotherapy and a...
Europe
Team of Greek Scientists Discover Greater Number of Gene Variants on Height
Researchers have pinpointed 83 genetic variants that could affect the height of a person and their findings have been published in "Nature" magazine.
Part of the research team included five Greeks from Genetics Professor Panos Deloukas of Queen Mary University...