inherited disease
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Cambridge, Mass.-based Beam Therapeutics developed an experimental treatment for a rare inherited disease that damages the lungs and liver, dosing its first patient in 2024.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 10, 2026
Peripheral neuropathy can occur from diabetes, injury, genetically inherited disease, infection, and more.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 28, 2023
The most infamous feud in American folklore, the long-running battle between the Hatfields and McCoys, may be partly explained by a rare, inherited disease that can lead to hair-trigger rage and violent outbursts.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 4, 2023
The inherited disease leads to the loss of nerve cells involved in walking, crawling, sitting, breathing and swallowing.
From BBC ● Nov. 18, 2021
The term hæmophilia is applied to an inherited disease which renders the patient liable to serious hæmorrhage from even the most trivial injuries; and the subjects of it are popularly known as “bleeders.”
From Manual of Surgery Volume First: General Surgery. Sixth Edition. by Alexis Thomson
