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The disease-eradicating potential of gene editing
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Tal Zaks |
TEDxBeaconStreet
• November 2017
If our cells are the hardware and our genetic material the operating system, what if we could change a few lines of code? In this cutting-edge science talk, oncologist Dr. Tal Zaks reviews the future of personalized medicine, which may lie with gene-editing vaccines tailored to each patient's immune system, teaching it to overcome the genetic mutations that trigger diseases like cancer.