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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
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Daniel Keane

'It could change lives': Inside London lab testing gene therapy for cancer and obesity

Deep in a Shoreditch basement, a group of scientists are conducting experiments that could one day help revolutionise the treatment of blindness, cancer and obesity.

MeiraGTx, based in a former recording studio on Britannia Walk, is developing gene therapy which they hope could offer answers to some of the most complex diseases.

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