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One Man’s “Trash” is Another Man’s Cure for Familial Hypercholesterolemia

Post author:Minden Cantrell
Post published:September 25, 2017
Post category:Familial Hypercholesterolemia Rare Disease

In the ultimate feat of recycling, scientists at UCLA and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute have re-purposed the LeXis gene as a cholesterol-lowering agent. A recent press release issued by…

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