Gene therapy delivered into the brain could treat alcohol misuse
21 August 2023
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Professor Simon Waddington (ÐÂÏã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê¿ª½±½á¹ûEGA Institute for Women's Health) says doctors may be wary of giving people a new treatment unless they are severely ill with alcohol misuse: “It’s a heck of a thing to have an injection into your brain of a gene therapy that you can’t switch off."