Another study advancing a potential treatment of myotonic Dystrophy

This is a fairly scientific study of using the CRISPER Technology to help find a treatment for myotonic dystrophy. DM1 is caused by expanded CTG repeats in the 30 UTR. It is conceivable that simply deleting the expanded CTG repeats may cure the disease. With the advancement of therapeutic genome-editing technologies, this is becoming more realistic.

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