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The gene doctors

moving image The gene doctors

Summary: "Every year, over a million babies are born worldwide with a hereditary disease; most are serious, and many are fatal. For most of the history of medicine, doctors could only treat symptoms. Now an elite cadre of pioneers, gene doctors, is startin... Read more

Contents: Opening -- Dreams of a cure -- A girl goes blind -- Battling muscular dystrophy -- Fighting to breathe: cystic fibrosis -- Trying to restore sight -- The FDA weighs a new drug -- CRISPR: editing genes letter by letter -- Becoming a gene doctor.

Format: moving image

Description: 1 videodisc (approximately 55 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in.

Publisher: PBS 2017

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videorecording Medical television programs. Documentary television programs. Nonfiction television programs. Video recordings for the hearing impaired. Case studies. Documentary television programs. Medical television programs. Nonfiction television programs. Video recordings for the hearing impaired. DVD-Video discs.

Medical genetics Genetic engineering Gene therapy Case studies Gene therapy Genetic engineering Medical genetics Genetic Therapy Gene Editing Genetics, Medical Genetic Diseases, Inborn Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats CRISPR-Cas Systems

Whittlesey, Rob Grant, Eleanor (Filmmaker) Washington, Sharon Munroe, Stephanie McCarthy, Stephen (Cinematographer) Mirowitz, Sheldon Bjorck, Andreas Tangled Bank Studios, LLC RCSR Productions Public Broadcasting Service (U.S.) PBS Distribution (Firm)

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