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CHARMed collaboration creates a potent therapy candidate for fatal prion diseases


MIT Whitehead and Broad Institute researchers designed an epigenetic editor that can silence the prion protein gene, which could potentially be developed into a therapy against fatal prion diseases. The same approach could be used against other genetic diseases.

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