Gene Silencing Treatments
Inside Health
BBC
4.4 • 575 Ratings
🗓️ 19 October 2021
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
The future is here. Gene silencing medicines - which can fine tune how our DNA works - have held promise for decades. Now hundreds of thousands of people will get them in the UK. James speaks to a surgeon whose life and career have been saved by gene-silencing drugs and to researchers who think the field could lead to drugs for diseases we think of as untreatable.
Presenter: James Gallagher Producer: Geraldine Fitzgerald
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| 0:38.7 | Hello. |
| 0:39.7 | My name is Carlos and as Palau. |
| 0:41.9 | I'm a hand surgeon working in Darby. |
| 0:44.9 | Just as coming up, getting ready to start surgery this morning. |
| 0:48.9 | And we're going to do two operations. |
| 0:50.6 | First one is to replace a little finger joint and a lady with asthma arthritis. |
| 0:57.9 | And the second one, we're going to investigate a young man with a ligament injured in his wrist. |
| 1:03.7 | Welcome to the Inside Health podcast. I'm James Galaher and we're heading into the operating theatre. |
| 1:10.1 | The surgeons have picked their favourite tracks and are about to listen to a medical miracle. |
| 1:14.6 | 20K up 250. |
| 1:17.6 | Now we're about to start the first operation of the day. |
| 1:22.6 | Fall antibiotics in. |
| 1:25.6 | Yes. |
| 1:26.6 | 20K on, Yes. Yes. |
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