A new study published in the Science Translational Medicine journal suggests that gene therapy may help ease depression. Researchers working with mice and human brain cells found that a deficit of a protein called p11 may play a role in depression. Their study suggests that fixing the genes that produce those proteins could affect the course of a patient's depression.
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