Scientists have identified new genetic risk factors for depression across all major global populations after a study involving five million participants, giving hope for new treatments.
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The Standard
Global study on depression identifies new genetic risk factors
Researchers from the University of Edinburgh and King’s College London believe the findings offer new insight into the condition.
A two-and-a-half-year-old girl shows no signs of a rare genetic disorder, after becoming the first person to be treated with a gene-targeting drug while in the womb for spinal muscular atrophy, a motor neuron disease. The “baby has been effectively treated, with no manifestations of the condition.”
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Nature
Rare genetic disorder treated in womb for the first time
Nature - The child, who is now almost three years old, shows no signs of the often fatal motor neuron disease.
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A man has become the seventh person to be left HIV-free after receiving a stem cell transplant to treat blood cancer. Significantly, he is also the second to receive stem cells that were not actually resistant to the virus 🌟🩸💉
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New Scientist
Man unexpectedly cured of HIV after stem cell transplant | New Scientist
A handful of people with HIV have been cured after receiving HIV-resistant stem cells – but a man who received non-resistant stem cells is also now HIV-free
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