Creating personalised drugs
IN JULY 2019, Rohan Seth published an emotional message on Twitter. It said that his six-month-old daughter, Lydia, had been born with a random genetic mutation. He had been told that she would live a life full of pain and never sit up, crawl, walk or talk. Doctors said that nothing could be done. But Mr Seth explained that he planned to use a technology called antisense oligonucleotides (ASO)…