gene therapy

Can One Gene Hold the Key to Stopping Autoimmune Disease?
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Can One Gene Hold the Key to Stopping Autoimmune Disease?

Imagine if the body’s immune system could be retrained to stop attacking itself. Scientists have identified a gene called Egr1 that may make this possible. This discovery could change how we understand and treat autoimmune diseases such as multiple sclerosis, lupus, and rheumatoid arthritis. Autoimmune diseases occur when the immune system loses its ability to…

First-Ever Successful Huntington’s Disease Treatment Slows Progression by 75 Percent
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First-Ever Successful Huntington’s Disease Treatment Slows Progression by 75 Percent

For decades, Huntington’s disease has stood as one of medicine’s most heartbreaking diagnoses, a slow and unstoppable decline that robs individuals of movement, memory, and personality. Now, for the first time, scientists have achieved something once thought impossible: slowing the disease’s progression by 75 percent. In early clinical trials, an experimental gene therapy called AMT-130…