Adeno-associated Virus (IMAGE)

University of California - Berkeley

Adeno-associated Virus

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The UC Berkeley team used an adeno-associated virus (AAV) to ferry genes for CRISPR-Cas9 into motor neurons to delay onset of symptoms of ALS in mice.

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