genetics
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Your Genes Shape How Long You Live — Far More Than We Thought
A landmark study in Science overturns decades of consensus: when you filter out deaths from accidents and infections, the heritability of human lifespan climbs above 50%. That changes everything about how we should study aging.
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The First CRISPR Cure: How Gene Editing Finally Kept Its Promise
In 2023, regulators approved Casgevy — the first CRISPR therapy to cure a genetic disease in humans. For people with sickle cell disease, it means a life without pain crises. Here's how a bacterial immune system became medicine.