New step towards a future in which some chronic diseases will be cured forever by pressing a genetic button. A team of scientists from the American company Verve Therapeutics has inactivated a gene associated with high levels of bad cholesterol in adult monkeys, achieving a decrease in 60%. Researchers have used – for the first time in primates – base editors, a sophisticated variant of the award-winning CRISPR gene editing tools. last Nobel Prize in Chemistry. The authors already talk about “once and done” treatments.
