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Anchor lead: Can knowing someone’s weight over time more precisely indicate their heart disease risk? Elizabeth Tracey reports Obesity is a well-known risk factor for heart failure. Now new research by Erin Michos, a cardiologist at Johns Hopkins, and colleagues, …
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Anchor lead: Can characterizing acute flaccid myelitis help clinicians spot it? Elizabeth Tracey reports Acute flaccid myelitis, the mysterious illness that has stuck fear into the hearts of parents nationally, has better definition now. Matthew Elrick, a pediatric neurologist at …
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Anchor lead: How should the recently reported CRISPR twins be followed? Elizabeth Tracey reports Imagine being one of the CRISPR twins, the two babies reportedly born recently with modifications to their DNA made using CRISPR technology. The whole world is …
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Anchor lead: Is the current state of mitochondrial replacement therapy a model for where CRISPR may go? Elizabeth Tracey reports Editing embryos using the technique known as CRISPR has reportedly resulted in the birth of twins, with changes in their …
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Anchor lead: What is the best response to gene-edited babies being born? Elizabeth Tracey reports The announcement that so-called gene edited babies, twins, had been born took the world by storm recently, and unleased a furor of reaction. Jeffrey Kahn, …
