A ‘Cure for Heart Disease’? A Single Shot Succeeds in Monkeys

“What if a single injection could lower blood levels of cholesterol and triglycerides — for a lifetime?” asks the New York Times. “In the first gene-editing experiment of its kind, scientists have disabled two genes in monkeys that raise the risk for heart disease.” (Alternate source here.)
Humans carry the genes as well, and the experiment has raised hopes that a leading…