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
Cystic fibrosis is an inherited disease that causes sticky, thick mucus to build up in the lungs and other organs, causing persistent infections that can be deadly.
From Science Daily ● Mar. 13, 2024
The work could also inform modern medicine, if researchers can identify a genetically inherited disease and trace it back generations.
From Science Magazine ● Oct. 4, 2023
These are people with an inherited disease called phenylketonuria or PKU, who are born unable to metabolise the phenylalanine that is released as aspartame is broken down.
From BBC ● Jul. 13, 2023
When we hear it said that a man carries in his constitution the seeds of an inherited disease, there is much literal truth in the expression.
From The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication, Volume II (of 2) by Charles Darwin
