25 May

Researchers have developed a gene-editing injection targeting the specific mechanism creating high cholesterol in people. The results were staggering, up to a 62% sustained drop in LDL cholesterol. If knowledge work could be made the true high status work in our societies, our lives would be transformed into ones of absolute wonder. Instead we devote most of our energies and resources into building our status, individually and collectively. https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2601283