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Epileptic seizures nearly vanish after people receive experimental gene therapy in their brains

A clinical trial in three people tested a combination of gene-laden viruses and a drug.

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Biomedical engineering

From wearable sensors to advanced prosthetics and engineered tissues, biomedical engineering is producing new ways to understand the human body and improve patient care across the board.
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