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Nature Biomedical/Health Tech

A man with a rare motor-neuron disease got better—thanks to a new kind of RNA therapy

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Think of RNA therapy as a molecular corrective tape: instead of replacing a faulty gene, it intercepts the broken instructions *before* they become a problem, allowing your cells to build the right proteins.

This means we're no longer stuck waiting for traditional gene therapy to mature—we have a working treatment for diseases that were essentially untouchable just years ago.


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