The science of preserving sight | Joshua Chu-Tan
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The Central Dogma of Genetics
AMD is an incredibly complex disease. If you try and block a single thing leading to the disease, it's very likely that something else would just come and take its place. The same issue faces researchers looking into treatments for all kinds of neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer's or Parkinson's. But what if we could find one therapy that could treat multiple causes? What if we could get to the root of the disease? Maybe we can - but to get there, we need to understand just a little bit about genetics.
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