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Genetic Engineering – Cure for HIV, eradication of Malaria
Cure for HIV, eradication of Malaria: Gene Editing holds the key In 2015, according to a WHO report there were about 212 million cases of malaria recorded globally. out of which a staggering 429,000 cases resulted in the death of the patient. Similarly, since its detection, HIV has been detected in over 70 million people […]
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E1b1a haplogroup and Sickle Cell disease
Some time back we had talked about how Gene Therapy, which is essentially a way of throwing out defective genes from one’s body and replacing them with normal ones, was instrumental in curing Sickle Cell Anemia. Sickle Cell Anemia is basically a disorder wherein the blood cell which should essentially be round like Oreos morph […]
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