‘Making It All the Way to the Moon on the First Try:’ What We Heard This Week
“It’s like launching a rocket ship in the hope of just getting into orbit, but making it all the way to the moon on the first try.” — Kiran Musunuru, MD, PhD, of the University of Pennsylvania, describing an intravenous CRISPR infusion that lowered levels of a disease-causing protein in vivo for the first time […]
House Lawmakers Eager to Boost Vaccine Uptake, Quash Hesitancy
Implementing so-called “regret lotteries,” launching school vaccination clinics, and targeting “microherds” were among the strategies proposed by expert witnesses to address vaccine hesitancy, during a hearing of the House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis on Thursday. “Nearly all of the more than 8,500 Americans who died from COVID-19 last month were unvaccinated,” said Chairman […]