Utrecht University: Rewriting Genes to Fight Metabolic Diseases
July 01, 2025
July 01, 2025
UTRECHT, The Netherlands, July 1 -- Utrecht University issued the following news:
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Rewriting genes to fight metabolic diseases
Can we fix rare genetic diseases by correcting mistakes in DNA? During his PhD, Indi Joore explored one of the most precise tools for doing just that: prime editing. A tool especially promising for metabolic diseases, genetic diseases, caused by a mistake in DNA. But his work went beyond the lab. It led him to explore how scien . . .
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Rewriting genes to fight metabolic diseases
Can we fix rare genetic diseases by correcting mistakes in DNA? During his PhD, Indi Joore explored one of the most precise tools for doing just that: prime editing. A tool especially promising for metabolic diseases, genetic diseases, caused by a mistake in DNA. But his work went beyond the lab. It led him to explore how scien . . .