Use of antisense oligonucleotides to treat rare diseases By Rosie Davies A rare disease is a disorder that affects less than 5 in 10,000 of the general population. Although individually rare, as a whole, there are up to 8000 known rare diseases, affecting approximately 3.5 million people in the UKand impacts tens of millions of individuals globally. Moreover, the number of newly published rare diseases is increasing at a
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Apr 2019
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Mar 2019
Apollo London’s first year
by Rosie Davies … I’m very excited to launch our first blog post for Apollo London. It has been a fairly hectic year setting up Apollo London, from our first meeting to discuss the conception in January 2018, our launch event in October 2018 and a smattering of events throughout the academic year. I’d like to take this first blog post to thank everyone who has supported us, including
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Feb 2019
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