genetic disease

A statement drafted by participants at a meeting in Napa in early 2015 spoke of the promise of “curing genetic disease” but also warned of “unknown risks to human health and well-being.”

Today, mRNA vaccines are also being developed to prevent or treat diseases including HIV and cancer, as well as autoimmune and genetic diseases.

And will it have a knock-on impact on other types of mRNA technology, such as cancer vaccines - or using the approach to treat rare genetic diseases?

It only buried those with suspected links to the so-called euthanasia programmes, which referred to the systematic killing of those the Nazis deemed "unworthy of life" because of alleged genetic diseases or defects.

Previous analysis showed it identified 60 new genetic diseases and gave 5,500 families a diagnosis for the first time.