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    It’s been quite a year

    Jan 20, 2022 1 minute

    love the end of each year as it is the time for a good old retrospective look at what news review 2021 (December, p22). Given how COVID-19 and the science around it have dominated our thinking, many of the science discoveries passed me by in the chaos. The story on the continued revelations surrounding CRISPR gene-editing techniques and the amazing feats that can be achieved was most welcome and eye-opening. The advancement of being able to inject a patient without the need to extract and work on changing the cells outside the body first is a game-changer. I am pleased for the patient who saw a drastic reduction in the destructive proteins caused by their transthyretin amyloidosis.

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