Listen "Gene Silencing Treatments"
Episode Synopsis
The future is here. Gene silencing medicines - which can fine tune how our DNA works - have held promise for decades. Now hundreds of thousands of people will get them in the UK. James speaks to a surgeon whose life and career have been saved by gene-silencing drugs and to researchers who think the field could lead to drugs for diseases we think of as untreatable. Presenter: James Gallagher
Producer: Geraldine Fitzgerald
Producer: Geraldine Fitzgerald
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