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Putting the dopamine back in Parkinson’s
One in 37 people in the UK are diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease (PD) during their lifetime (Parkinson’s UK, 2018). Those 2. Read More…
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Rare is not so rare
I want to find a treatment for a disease. The disease is inevitably fatal within the first months of life, but it is rare. Read More…
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Forget Computer Hacking – Is Biohacking the Next Big Thing?
Most of us have found ourselves ordering something off the internet before. Read More…
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Your cells are alive with the sound of music
Not everyone is musical. Some of us can barely hum in tune let alone perform Beethoven’s ‘Für Elise’ perfectly on the piano. Read More…
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How to be a dragon: metamorphosis in the era of gene editing
I once saw a picture online of the Dragon Lady. It was really quite extraordinary: although born a human being, she now lives as a reptile. Read More…
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BSGCT Spring Conference
Soon after the last meeting in Oxford, experts in the field of gene therapy got together in the heart of Regent’s Park, in London. Read More…
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Targeting (for) cheaper CAR-T therapies
Following a single dose of CAR-T therapy, cancer patients for whom all other treatment options have failed have gone into complete remission. Read More…
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CRISPR/Cas9 editing of a giant gene: towards a new therapeutic frontier for Duchenne muscular dystrophy
The human genome contains approximately 20,000 protein-coding genes. Of these, dystrophin is the third largest; spanning ~2. Read More…
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The quest to find the perfect gene therapy vector for the brain: in focus lysosomal storage disorders with neurological symptoms
As highlighted by Dr Stuart Nicklin’s post in April this year, scientists are working on developing new, more powerful adeno-associated vectors (AAV Read More…
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Science Writing Competition
To recognise outstanding written communication by students (post-graduate and undergraduate) and research scientists (pre- and post-doc Read More…