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🗓️ 11 October 2022
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Gene therapies border on the miraculous, transforming lives in a single shot. The treatments offer hope to millions around the world who live with genetic diseases, and could also help the fight against cancer and HIV. This year, four new gene therapies were approved—and there are thousands more clinical trials under way. But the path from miracles of science to miracles of medicine will not be easy. The Economist’s Natasha Loder explains the safety concerns and market challenges that must be overcome to make the genetic revolution possible. Alok Jha hosts.
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0:42.3 | In 2014, Julian Szechiron realized there was something wrong with his eyesight. |
0:49.7 | I was waiting. I got something wrong, you know, |
0:53.3 | because it was light, because it was a sand, and I didn't know what happened. |
0:59.2 | So I got to see a thermologist, and he told me, can you read the letter? |
1:04.0 | On the white eye, it was okay. I can read the letter, a normally. |
1:08.8 | And then he got to the left eye and was enabled to read one letter. |
1:14.2 | He was dressed blank. |
1:17.9 | Julian was 37 years old. His doctor diagnosed him with a very rare |
1:23.1 | condition called Leiber Hereditary Optic Neuropathy, or LHON. |
1:29.9 | Okay, and what is the treatment? And the thermologist, there is no treatment. |
1:34.8 | And you're going to lose suddenly the sight in the white eye, and you're going to be |
1:42.3 | very sightness. I say, okay, what is the very sightness? |
1:46.0 | You never be blind, okay? You never be in the black, but you're going to lose your sight |
1:51.6 | on the boss eye. And it was brutal in three months, and your life changed. |
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