Therapeutics: Changing the way we treat disease

<div style="font-weight: 400;"> <p><span data-contrast="auto">The latest free-to-listen DDW podcast episode is titled “Therapeutics: Changing the way we treat disease”. It covers two articles written for Volume 22, Issue 2 – Spring 2021 of the Drug Discovery World Magazine and has been narrated by DDW’s Megan Thomas.</span><span data-ccp-props= "{"201341983":0,"335559739":160,"335559740":259}"> </span></p> </div> <div style="font-weight: 400;"> <p><span data-contrast="auto">These articles are titled: “Avoiding double strand breaks on the CRISPR path to therapeutic discovery” and “The power of precision medicine”.</span><span data-ccp-props= "{"201341983":0,"335559739":160,"335559740":259}"> </span></p> </div> <div style="font-weight: 400;"> <p><span data-contrast="auto">In the first article, Nicola McCarthy from Horizon Discovery explains: Now a key pillar in the early stages of therapeutics development, the limitations of introducing a DNA double strand break mean that workflows are broadening away from CRISPR–Cas as a gene knockout technology and towards platforms that enable genetic modulation and safer genetic alterations. </span><span data-ccp-props= "{"201341983":0,"335559739":160,"335559740":259}"> </span></p> </div> <div style="font-weight: 400;"> <p><span data-contrast="auto">In the second article, DDW Editor Lu Rahman looks at the role precision medicine is playing in how we approach the patient and the way we treat disease.</span><span data-ccp-props= "{"201341983":0,"335559739":160,"335559740":259}"> </span></p> </div>