Professor Pablo Perez-Pinera, center, with graduate students Shraddha Shirguppe, left, and Angelo Miskalis, led a team that applied the tool to reduce proteins associated with Alzheimer’s disease in mice. (IMAGE)

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Professor Pablo Perez-Pinera, center, with graduate students Shraddha Shirguppe, left, and Angelo Miskalis, led a team that applied the tool to reduce proteins associated with Alzheimer’s disease in mice.

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A new gene editing tool helps cells skip gene regions with problematic mutations. Professor Pablo Perez-Pinera, center, with graduate students Shraddha Shirguppe, left, and Angelo Miskalis, led a team that applied the tool to reduce proteins associated with Alzheimer’s disease in mice. 

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