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Doctors can now edit genes inside your body, a landmark deal is eliminating the standard 6% sales commission for homes, and GenZ is more pessimistic than any generation that came before

Watch All-In E170 Read our Healthcare Deep Dive Caught My Eye… Doctors can now edit genes inside your body. Last year, regulators approved the world’s first medicine using Crispr, which worked by extracting cells, editing them in a lab and returning them to the patient. Today, new experimental therapies labeled ‘in-vivo’ gene editing aim to treat genetic disorders by editing cells directly inside a patient’s body. If successful, this approach could be cheaper and reach more people than external methods. However, ‘in-vivo’ editing carries the risk of accidentally editing an unrelated gene,…

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