Gene therapy clips out heart failure causing gene mutations

Wednesday, April 29, 2015 - 19:00 in Health & Medicine

This image shows the heart failure gene editing process. Gene therapy can clip out genetic material linked to heart failure and replace it with the normal gene in human cardiac cells, according to a study led by researchers from the Cardiovascular Research Center at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. The study is published in the April 29 edition of Nature Communications.

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