Neuroscientists have developed a technology that allows you to remove pathological memories for the treatment of PTSD, drug addiction and some chronic diseases.
Negative emotions, such as fear, are necessary.us for survival, but when a person cannot cope with them and forget, this can cause various disturbances. Treatment of pathological memories allows you to get rid of conditions such as post-traumatic stress disorder, chronic pain and stress, as well as drug addiction.
Researchers from Peking Universitydeveloped a new genome modification system incells of various types, including brain neurons. They reported the successful use of this CRISPR-cas9-based technology to destroy genes related to fear memory in laboratory rats.
Currently, doctors all over the worldare experimenting with genome editing to treat chronic and congenital diseases. However, the use of such methods on people is associated with a number of ethical issues.
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