we now have the tools to directly change someone's DNA—this has paved the way for gene editing as a type of gene therapy. It is done using the CRISPR-Cas9 system, which was created after ...
Verve Therapeutics has started dosing patients in a phase 1b trial of its in vivo gene-editing drug for high cholesterol, designed to permanently switch off the PCSK9 gene with a one-shot treatment.