Researchers at the University of California at San Diego have used RNA-targeted CRISPR to reverse symptoms in an animal model of myotonic dystrophy type 1 (DM1). They reported their findings in the Sept. 14, 2020, issue of Nature Biomedical Engineering.
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Researchers at the University of California at San Diego have used RNA-targeted CRISPR to reverse symptoms in an animal model of myotonic dystrophy type 1 (DM1). They reported their findings in the Sept. 14, 2020, issue of Nature Biomedical Engineering.
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Researchers at the Diabetes Institute of the University of Washington and the University of Copenhagen have implicated the brain in the ability of intracranial injections of fibroblast growth factor 1 (FGF1) to restore blood sugar control to diabetic animals for long periods of time.
