immune response
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CRISPR Can Help Combat the Troubling Immune Response Against Gene Therapy
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 destroying the gene, and the vehicle carrying it, which can trigger life-threatening widespread inflammation. Three…
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Kids Who Bite Their Nails And Suck Their Thumbs Develop Fewer Allergies
Parents, you can stop fretting about your child’s disgusting habits. An analysis of more than 1000 kids between the ages of five and 11 reveals that nail-biters and thumb-suckers are less likely to develop allergic sensitivities later on in life.