Kiran Musunuru
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How to use #CRISPR gene editing to fight heart disease, the #1 killer worldwide:A thread 10+ years in the making.This one starts in 2009 when I was a postdoc in
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Lulu and Nana, humanity’s first gene-edited babies, both have some CRISPR edits in the CCR5 gene, as He Jiankui (JK) attempted. His goal was to confer HIV resistance.Unfortunately, the editing
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Today is Thanksgiving in the U.S.—in the spirit of the holiday, I want to focus on a positive story about CRISPR, instead of the misadventures of He Jiankui:“How CRISPR +
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