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Several years ago, doctors at the Childrens Hospital of Philadelphia CHOP came across a mysterious case. Within the first year of his life, patient Luke Terrio had experienced far more infections than normal鈥攊nfections that were no longer responding to antibiotics and were starting to stunt his development. The team of specialists quickly surmised that the boy had agammaglobulinemia, a type of immune deficiency where people produce little to no B cells, which help fend off infections. One key function of B cells is producing antibodies, which are especially helpful in neut
stanley tumblers ralizing infections from germs the body has already encountered. But Terrio didnt appear to have X-linked agammaglobulinemia XLA , a common form of the condition, as the doctors initially suspected. They soon theorized that his condition was caused by an unknown genetic flaw. I suspect PU.MA patients, although very rare, have a lot to teach
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stanley italia cer and also inflammatory diseases. To get to the bottom of this mystery, they sequenced Terrios whole exome, the part of our DNA that codes proteins. Eventually, they also compared his exome to others with agammaglobulinemia. And in six of these patients, including Terrio, they found a common link: mutations that hampered the ability to produce a protein important to B cell formation called PU.1. Once they discovered this link, they ran experiments with the gene-editing technology CRISPR, finding that st Ftaa Black Holes Only Go Truly Black if They re Really Big
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