Scientists have edited a gene that may reduce high cholesterol permanently

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Scientists have edited a gene that may reduce high cholesterol permanently (www.cnn.com)

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>With a snip of a gene, doctors may one day permanently lower dangerously high cholesterol, possibly removing the need for medication, according to a new pilot study published Saturday in the New England Journal of Medicine. The study was extremely small — only 15 patients with severe disease — and was meant to test the safety of a new medication delivered by CRISPR-Cas9, a biological sort of scissor which cuts a targeted gene to modify or turn it on or off. Preliminary results, however, showed nearly a 50% reduction in low-density lipoprotein, or LDL, the “bad” cholesterol which plays a major role in heart disease — the No.1 killer of adults in the United States and worldwide.

Archive: https://archive.today/pkm6z From the post: >>With a snip of a gene, doctors may one day permanently lower dangerously high cholesterol, possibly removing the need for medication, according to a new pilot study published Saturday in the New England Journal of Medicine. The study was extremely small — only 15 patients with severe disease — and was meant to test the safety of a new medication delivered by CRISPR-Cas9, a biological sort of scissor which cuts a targeted gene to modify or turn it on or off. Preliminary results, however, showed nearly a 50% reduction in low-density lipoprotein, or LDL, the “bad” cholesterol which plays a major role in heart disease — the No.1 killer of adults in the United States and worldwide.

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The body makes cholesterol to use in the repair of your tissues and cells. Modifying DNA to turn off some of that production will likely lead to detrimental health issues overall as the body will not be able to repair itself sufficiently. This is just another case of (((medicine))) fucking things up for profit. They will lower heart disease but give people worse problems that the industry can them (((treat))) for a lifetime, albeit a shortened one. Fucking jews.

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Well good because then we can all start having tissue integrity health problems like bone diseases, cardiovascular diseases, etc. It aint good when it's high, but it good when there's not enough of it either.

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Didn't we just figure out that "cholesterol" was how the body repairs itself and that cholesterol in the circulatory system was a symptom of blood vessel damage from another unknown source? It's always one step forward three steps back with jews.

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