<div dir="ltr"><div>"More than one in three American adults have <a href="https://www.cdc.gov/cholesterol/index.htm">high cholesterol</a>,
 which can lead to serious health problems like heart disease and 
stroke. The best remedies we have right now are cholesterol-lowering 
drugs called <a href="https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/high-blood-cholesterol/in-depth/statins/art-20045772">statins</a>,
 a diet rich in vegetables and low in fat, and good old-fashioned 
exercise. But in the future, there may be another way to reduce our 
cholesterol levels.
<p>A <a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-021-03534-y">study</a> published last week in <i>Nature</i> described how a team of scientists from the University of Pennsylvania and biotech company <a href="https://www.vervetx.com/">Verve Therapeutics</a> used the gene editing tool CRISPR to lower LDL cholesterol in monkeys by 60 percent in just one week. <i>And</i>, the monkeys’ cholesterol levels stayed low for over eight months after a single dose of the treatment."</p>

</div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://singularityhub.com/2021/05/26/one-crispr-treatment-lowered-cholesterol-in-monkeys-by-60-percent/">https://singularityhub.com/2021/05/26/one-crispr-treatment-lowered-cholesterol-in-monkeys-by-60-percent/</a></div></div>