Erano gli anni ’70 quando French Anderson mandò al New England Journal of Medicine un articolo in cui anticipava la possibilità di guarire le malattie ereditarie inserendo nell’organismo i geni mancanti o sostituendo quelli difettosi. “Impubblicabile perchè di sola fantascienza” rispose la rivista. Nel 1990, Anderson e Michael Blease riuscirono nell’impossibile e conclusero con successo…
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The new frontier
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It was the ’70s when French Anderson sent the New England Journal of Medicine article which anticipated the possibility of cure hereditary diseases by inserting genes into the body by replacing missing or defective ones. “Unprintable because only fiction,” said the magazine. In 1990, Anderson and Michael Blease managed the impossible and concluded the first…
