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Breakthrough announced in technique of 'editing' DNA to fight off deadly illnesses


Scientists say new cell therapy could protect against diabetes and cancer


A revolutionary technique for “editing” the human genome with extreme precision has been used for the first time to “cut and paste” the genes of a key type of immune cell involved in protecting the body against a wide range of diseases, from diabetes to HIV and cancer.


Scientists believe the development could eventually result in a new approach to fighting viral infections and cancerous tumours, by “gene editing” the T-cells of the immune system in the laboratory before putting them back into the patient to protect against ill health.


Medical researchers have been trying for years to perform accurate gene therapy on T-cells circulating in the bloodstream, which are involved in protecting against invasive pathogens and cancer, as well as auto-immune disorders such as type-1 diabetes, where the immune system attacks the body’s own tissues.


However, they have not succeeded until now in cutting out mutations and precisely replacing them with healthy strands of DNA, said Alexander Marson of the University of California, San Francisco, who led the latest research.


Dr Marson and his colleagues used the Crispr (Clustered, Regularly Interspaced, Short Palindromic Repeat) gene-editing technique to cut and splice fragments of DNA within the chromosomes of human T-cells living in a laboratory dish – as “proof of principle” that the process is precise enough for eventual use as a clinical treatment.


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“There is increasing interest in manipulating the genome of T-cells, either by correcting mutations or changing the genome to increase the chances of the cells being able to fight off cancer or infections,” Dr Marson said.


“We wanted not only to cut the genome, but to paste in sequences of DNA into the genome of T-cells. We have now been able to cut as well as paste pieces of the genome into human T-cells – for the first time to our knowledge.”


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Sounds like a lot of work. Just take Reishi and Chaga mushrooms to increase your killer T cell count.

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this one sounds interesting...the OP...not the 1st reply...if eating a simple freakin mushroom was the cure for anything there would have been a cure for cancer 3 thousand years ago

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on a sober second thought...we as humans almost all agree the genetically modified foods are something we will not put in our bodies...but we will allow our genes to b slices up and "edited" but i still stand by my previous post about mushrooms not curing cancer...smoke and mirrors and outright crap science from that quarter of industry that also make the claim that sharks don't get cancer so lets kill them and eat their cartilage in pill form is just that utter BS and preying on people with serious illness in order to make billions of profit

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