Can CRISPR edit out a heart attack? What happens on #GutTok? And is health care recession-proof?

We cover all that and more this week on The Readout LOUD, STATs biotech podcast. Sek Kathiresan, cardiologist and CEO of Verve Therapeutics, joins us to explain the companys work on preventing heart disease with genome editing. Then, STATs Isabella Cueto joins us to discuss Hot girls have IBS, an internet in-joke that evolved into a movement for people with chronic illness. We also break down the latest news in the life sciences, including a long-awaited victory for Novavax and ostensible good news for biotech.

For more on what we cover, heres the latest on Verve; heres the story on hot girls have IBS; heres the news on Novavax;heres where you can find episodes of Color Code; heres where you can subscribe to the First Opinion Podcast;and heres our complete coverage of the Covid-19 pandemic.

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CRISPR for the heart, biotech's recovery, & what it means to be a 'hot girl' - STAT

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