
Dr. Dietrich Stephan: New Drugs that Repair Broken Genes
Talking Biotech with Dr. Kevin Folta
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All Diseases Are Genetic
In the first three categories we talked about single gen diseases, cancer and infectious diseases, those are literally caused by genetics. But you can think of it as a genetic predisposition that must be as is necessarynd, but not sufficient, to cause that disease. And so you do have to bump into the environmental insult and those two to trigger the disease. So genetics are a key driver, and in common diseases as well.
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