Fitting Big Genes into Small Vectors

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Jun 18, 202600:33:24Business

Many disease‑causing genes are too large to be packaged into standard AAV gene therapy vectors, leaving a long list of otherwise gene-therapy-ready conditions without viable treatments. SpliceBio is leveraging a protein...

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