At the age of 38, Katherine Wilemon suffered a heart attack as she carried a ceramic pot into her backyard garden in Los Angeles. Now 53, the mother of two eats right, exercises and takes cholesterol-lowering medication—but it may still not be enough.
“I live with the anxiety of having another heart attack,” says Ms. Wilemon, whose genetic disorder causes high cholesterol levels and a risk for heart attack or stroke that is up to 20 times that of people without it.may protect the health not only of Ms. Wilemon and others with familial hypercholesterolemia but millions of people with a range of conditions, including chronic pain and diabetes.
It has been a year of profound change that is still transforming all aspects of society. Science has brought revolutionary technologies from the lab into people’s daily lives. Covid-19 vaccines and Crispr gene editors both built on decades of research into RNA, a crucial molecule in cells.
Source: Healthcare Press (healthcarepress.net)
Before then God's kingdom has come to solve all our problems.
Maybe next time the picture could be other than blonde.
Gene editing. What could go wrong?