Senior Research Technician at UCL
Dr Mireia Carcolé Estrada is a Volunteer Writer at BioNews. She holds an MSc in neuroscience from the Autonomous University of Barcelona, located in Bellaterra, near Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain and a PhD in pain research from the Pompeu Fabra University, located in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. Mireia moved to London in 2020 to work as a senior research technician at the UK Dementia Research Institute, where she works in Professor Adrian Isaacs' team at University College London. Her research focuses on developing gene therapies to treat amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and on creating sensitive biomarker assays to detect the toxic proteins that build up in this devastating disease.
A genome editing technique has corrected a disease-causing mutation in blood stem cells taken from a patient with a rare and severe immune disorder...
Over 1200 genetic variants associated with differences in personality have been identified in the largest study of its kind...
Patients diagnosed with breast cancer may be able to safely avoid chemotherapy if a genomic test indicates they are at low risk of their cancer returning, according to findings presented at a major cancer conference...
A long-term clinical trial of a gene therapy for a rare genetic form of deafness has demonstrated sustained hearing restoration, while a separate gene therapy for the same condition has received approval from the Food and Drug Administration...
New genetic causes of inherited blindness have been discovered that may offer answers to families with unexplained vision loss...
Children with a fatal brain disorder showed significant improvements after receiving gene therapy in an early-stage clinical trial...
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