hereditary disease
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"Is it just a matter of whether to define hereditary disease as a disease?"
From BBC • Dec. 18, 2025
They are working toward creating a child born from an embryo edited to prevent a hereditary disease.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 9, 2025
At an adaptive sports session early this year, the group made contact with Walt Raineri, a former paralympian in sailing with retitnitus pigmentosa — a hereditary disease that attacks the retinas.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 14, 2025
The recent approval of a CRISPR-Cas9 therapy for sickle cell disease demonstrates that gene editing tools can do a superb job knocking out genes to cure hereditary disease.
From Science Daily • Feb. 20, 2024
From these figures it will be seen that in no less than 41 per cent. of the total number of cases there was a distinct family history of hereditary disease.
From A Statistical Inquiry Into the Nature and Treatment of Epilepsy by Bennett, Alexander Hughes
