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New Treatment Cuts “Bad” Cholesterol in Half for a Full Year

A single infusion of an experimental CRISPR-Cas9 therapy was reported to safely lower LDL cholesterol by 52.5% and triglycerides by 47.8%, as measured 12 months after treatment. An experimental gene-editing treatment called CTX310 has shown early promise in people whose cholesterol and other blood [...]

New Treatment Cuts “Bad” Cholesterol in Half for a Full Year

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A single infusion of an experimental CRISPR-Cas9 therapy was reported to safely lower LDL cholesterol by 52.5% and triglycerides by 47.8%, as measured 12 months after treatment.

An experimental gene-editing treatment called CTX310 has shown early promise in people whose cholesterol and other blood [...]

What if one infusion could keep cholesterol down for a year?

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A single infusion of an experimental CRISPR-Cas9 therapy was reported to safely lower LDL cholesterol by 52.5% and triglycerides by 47.8%, as measured 12 months after treatment. An experimental gene-editing treatment called CTX310 has shown early promise in people whose cholesterol and other blood [...] What if one infusion could keep cholesterol down for a year?

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