Aissam, the boy who escaped a silent world thanks to gene therapy: “I’m hearing the phone!”
A bubble of absolute silence has sheltered the boy Aissam Dam throughout his life. Eleven years in the shadows of ...
Tag: Genetic diseases
How different are the genomes of two different people?
All humans share a huge part of our genome, 99.6%. That means that we are only different in that remaining ...
The enigma of the rare mutation that protects against cancer and heart attacks
The study of Ecuadorian families with a rare disease known as Laron syndrome has just shown that a genetic mutation ...
The mystery of brown pandas revealed: their color is due to a mutation
In 1985 the first brown panda was observed. It was so unique that everything was thought to be: that it ...
The DNA of 250,000 people illuminates the most hidden effect of poverty
About a decade ago, many people encountered a terrifying diagnosis: they had genetic mutations that increased their risk of suffering ...
The European Commission approves the first gene editing treatment with CRISPR
The European Commission has authorized the first treatment that uses the revolutionary CRISPR technique to edit human DNA. The therapy, ...
Gene therapy restores hearing to an 11-year-old boy with congenital deafness
Aissam Dam, 11 years old, son of a Moroccan family who emigrated to Barcelona, has recovered his hearing thanks to ...
Prehistoric migrations explain the predisposition of Europeans to suffer from sclerosis, Alzheimer's and diabetes
Prehistory is largely a mystery. Without writing, he has left no stories, only ruins, dust and bones. But events large ...
A heart model with stem cells solves the enigma of a family disease with two faces
Olalla Radio and his brother Esteban carry traces of the same disease in their genes: hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, the most common ...
The United States approves the first treatment with CRISPR gene editing
The revolutionary CRISPR gene editing is now fully part of the arsenal of medicine. The United States Food and Drug ...
