DNA-away Disease: Gene Therapy at Work
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Two pioneers in the field of gene therapy join us to discuss how they're developing modified viruses to deliver healthy copies of genes to save patients afflicted by lethal genetic diseases. We also hear how energy can be harvested from footsteps and heartbeats to power nanodevices, and how a new SWARM of satellites is about to be deployed to study the Earth's magnetic field from space. Plus, in the news, how "ums" and "ahs" can boost a baby's learning power, how mankind talked his way out of Africa and how scientists are recreating schizophrenia in a Petri dish...
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Parents who "um" and "er" in front of their children are in fact likely to be boosting their offspring's mastery of language.
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Tim Cox explains how Gene therapy may help in the treatment of in-born errors of metabolism where part of a biochemical pathway is faulty or missing...
What does it actually take to turn off a defective gene?
Are there any problems that may require the replacement or masking of several genes, rather than just a single one?
How do you get virally-inserted genes in the right place in the human genome?
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