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Researchers Block Cocaine Craving and Addiction With a Special Skin Graft

  • September 21, 2018

The devastating cravings that cocaine addiction brings on may have met their match in the form of a genetically engineered skin patch that can be grafted onto the skin of an addicted individual. Researchers in the Ming Xu Lab at University of Chicago announced that they utilized something called CRISPR technology to produce an enzyme that’s present in the human liver and blood and incorporate it into lab-generated skin cells. The enzyme in its natural state metabolizes cocaine into...