Tijuana, Apr 18, 2022.

En Linea BC, E.- Being able to see healthy patients who had been terminally ill or without improvement due to serious illnesses is one of the greatest satisfactions of Dr. Paloma Soto Brambila. She has developed an outstanding scientific career in the field of human genetics. Her work has taken her to 2 of the most important universities in the world: Stanford University in the United States and the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom, where she had the opportunity to collaborate with the Nobel Prize in Medicine, Peter J. Ratcliffe. He pointed out that thanks to these stays he brought to the country a novel treatment that helps not only in the diagnosis but also in the treatment of patients with complicated medical cases. Gene therapy is one of the treatments in which artificially cultured cells are programmed and administered by the millions intravenously, the specialist explained. He also indicated that this therapy is designed according to the pathology of each patient, becoming precision medicine.

In the case of patients with some type of cancer, he said.  Another type of cell called NK is used, and the treatment consists of obtaining cells from the patient and potentiating them so that when they are returned to the patient they are a biological chemo and destroy only the bad cells.

There are patients who have been given a few months to live and are without discomfort or pain and stable…

…Another type of treatment that we have are exosomes that, unlike mesenchymal and NK, are put in billions and go through the vein…

These are short sequences of genes that help intercellular communication so that protein transport within the organism is facilitated and there is internal renewal.

“It is like the medicine of the future because it is safe and has no side effects,” he expressed.

He highlighted that these 3 types of therapies regenerate 95% of the body because they come from the mesoderm and benefit organs such as heart, liver, kidney, pancreas, colon, skin, bones, cartilage, among others.

Soto Brambila alluded to the fact that in the country genetic medicine is a young and little-known specialty that has been left behind and has not been enhanced in its magnitude.

He indicated that at the national level there are only 40 doctors specializing in genetics who have master’s and doctoral degrees.

“The work of the geneticist is sometimes not known in the medical profession itself, and a geneticist must be the first to intervene when there is a challenge in a patient that is difficult to diagnose,” commented the specialist who will consult in Tijuana in the near future.

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