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Trials to treatments: gene therapy

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Will gene therapy treatments be available in my lifetime? And what are the barriers to making them a reality? With news that a new gene therapy trial for Parkinson’s is due to start in the UK later this year, we take a look at how far this technique has come.

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I think all Pd patients should be feeling a lot more hopeful. We have spoken in depth with 2 neuros here in Sydney and they both said they are hopeful that within the next 5 yrs there should be something available to st least arrest the disease.

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