The proposed role for cannabis in medicine has been leveraged for some years now, with illegal sources being smoked or baked to ameliorate clinical issues such as muscle spasticity or pain. Cannabis for medical use is for sale legally in some states in the USA, and most recently in Thailand and the Isle of Man...Read More

Parkinson’s Disease (PD) is a debilitating progressive neurodegenerative disease that affects about 145,000 people in the UK and between 7-10 million people worldwide. Typified by tremors, slow movements and stiff or inflexible muscles, PD is caused by the lack of dopamine in the brain as nerve cells are lost from an area of the brain...Read More

Gene therapy to combat disease has long been talked about but is now becoming a reality. With the advent of CRISPR, a catchy name for Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats, there is now the promise of editing genes in living cells. In order to think about CRISPR let’s consider Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy (DMD). Muscular...Read More