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CRISPR can help combat the troubling immune response against gene therapy

  • Written by Samira Kiani, Associate Professor of Pathology, University of Pittsburgh
CRISPR can help combat the troubling immune response against gene therapyIntroducing healthy genes to replace defective ones is the essence of gene therapy.KTSFotos/Getty Images

One of the major challenges facing gene therapy - a way to treat disease by replacing a patient’s defective genes with healthy ones - is that it is difficult to safely deliver therapeutic genes to patients without the immune system...

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