Spanish scientists resurrect proteins from millions of years ago and use them to correct albinism in human cells

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Spanish scientists resurrect proteins from millions of years ago and use them to correct albinism in human cells

For years, scientists around the world have been searching for microbes in the ice of Antarctica, in the deepest trenches in the oceans and in the most hostile volcanic environments on the planet. Its objective is to find new proteins with which to improve current genetic editing techniques. This could open the door to a new era of science and medicine in which a multitude of diseases are cured by correcting patients' genomes with astonishing ea…