Anxiety affects many people, and for some, medication doesn’t help. Researchers have developed a novel, noninvasive method of delivering CRISPR/Cas9 gene-editing technology into the brain – previously a challenge – to knock out a gene that causes anxiety. While the technique has so far only been…
Really interesting animal model, but holy crap does knocking out neurotransmitter receptor genes in a brain in vivo sound terrifying.
Yeah, absolutely not the first thing I’d choose as a target.