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Chinese Researchers Has Correct Genetic Mutation In Embryos by Samuelcyprial(m): 3:59pm On Sep 29, 2017 |
[http://www.samuelcyprial.com.ng/2017/09/chinese-researchers-has-correct-genetic.html]A team at Sun Yat-sen University used a technique called base editing to correct a single error out of the three billion "letters" of our genetic code. They researchers made embryos to remove the disease beta-thalassemia, which the embryos were not implanted. The team says the approach may one day treat a range of inherited diseases. Base editing alters the fundamental building blocks of DNA: the four bases adenine, cytosine, guanine and thymine. They are commonly known by their respective letters, A, C, G and T. All the instructions for building and running the human body are encoded in combinations of those four bases. The potentially life-threatening blood disorder beta-thalassemia is caused by a change to a single base in the genetic code - known as a point mutation[/http://www.samuelcyprial.com.ng/2017/09/chinese-researchers-has-correct-genetic.html] |
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