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Patients with debilitating illness say gene-editing trial has relieved symptoms, changed lives

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Newstalk ZB,
Publish Date
Tue, 17 Jan 2023, 8:18AM
A new therapy involving revolutionary gene-editing tech CRISPR-Cas9 may have offered a permanent cure for the rare but debilitating genetic disorder, hereditary angioedema. Photo / 123RF
A new therapy involving revolutionary gene-editing tech CRISPR-Cas9 may have offered a permanent cure for the rare but debilitating genetic disorder, hereditary angioedema. Photo / 123RF

Patients with debilitating illness say gene-editing trial has relieved symptoms, changed lives

Author
Newstalk ZB,
Publish Date
Tue, 17 Jan 2023, 8:18AM

New Zealand patients with a debilitating illness say a gene-editing trial has relieved their symptoms and changed their lives.

Hereditary angioedema causes unpredictable and often frequent swelling attacks, but those taking part in the trial are no longer getting attacks.

Principal Investigator Dr Hilary Longhurst sees potential for the cutting-edge technology to have widespread applications in the future.

She says it will be applicable to other people with rare diseases, but also those with common conditions because no one likes lifelong tablets or injections.

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