Soundbites: Breast Cancer Gene Editing (VIDEO)

University of Washington School of Medicine/UW Medicine

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Dr. Jay Shendure and Dr. Lea Starita at the University of Washington Department of Genome Sciences and the Brotman Baty Institute for Precision Medicine talk about the findings from engineering mutations into the breast cancer gene BRCA1, analyzing their effects in living cells in the lab, and what the findings might mean for people who have received previously inconclusive results from testing of that gene.

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