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Gene Therapy for Alcohol Use Disorder Gene therapy might offer a one-time, sustained treatment for patients with serious alcohol addiction, also called alcohol use disorder, according to a new study led by a researcher at The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center and College of Medicine. T

Gene therapy might offer a one-time, sustained treatment for patients with serious alcohol addiction, also called alcohol use disorder, according to a new study led by a researcher at The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center and College of Medicine.

Already used to treat Parkinson’s disease, researchers found surgical treatment dramatically reduced chronic heavy drinking. A form of gene therapy currently used to treat Parkinson’s disease may dramatically reduce alcohol use among chronic heavy drinkers, researchers at Oregon Health & Scie

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) is incentivizing researchers to think beyond single applications of genome editing and to develop platform approaches that can be used to address multiple diseases.

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) is incentivizing researchers to think beyond single applications of genome editing and to develop platform approaches that can be used to address multiple diseases.