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Imagine if, instead of delivering a leaflet individually to each home, a postal worker just had to give one to a volunteer on each block, who then photocopied it and handed out copies to neighbours.

Studies Test Whether Gene-Editing Can Fix High Cholesterol. for Now, Take Your Medicine WASHINGTON (AP) — Scientists are testing an entirely new way to fight heart disease: a gene-editing treatment ...

Scientists are testing an entirely new way to fight heart disease: a gene-editing treatment that might offer a one-time fix for high cholesterol. It's very early stage research, tried in only a few ...

A chubby-cheeked baby called KJ made medical history last year. Faced with a life-threatening metabolic disease, KJ’s doctors at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia sprinted to create a personalized ...

In May 2025, the world celebrated the success of KJ, an infant who was treated with the world’s first personalized CRISPR gene editing therapy. KJ was born with severe carbamoyl phosphate synthetase 1 ...