Loretta from Canada🇨🇦

@myview66.bsky.social

Living a good life. Doing one good thing every day; advocating for those who cannot.

'Unlike typical gene therapy, which alters a person’s genes to treat a genetic disease, antisense oligonucleotide [RNA] therapy, uses short strands of genetic material to target RNA produced by the gene and reduce how much protein is made.' Looking for good news. Advances in RNA science & med.

First for RNA therapy: man with rare motor-neuron disease improves after treatment

Gene-targeting treatments could be used to treat other people with rare forms of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS).

nature.com