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    'It could change lives': Inside London lab testing gene therapy for cancer and obesity

    by Daniel Keane Dec 21, 2023 3 minutes
    Source: Meira GTX

    Deep in a Shoreditch basement, a group of scientists are conducting experiments that could one day help revolutionise the treatment of blindness, cancer and obesity.

    MeiraGTx, based in a former recording studio on Britannia Walk, is developing gene therapy which they hope could offer answers to some of the most complex diseases.

    Gene therapy works by replacing defective or missing copies of a gene that is broken with a healthy version of that same gene. It has already been

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