I’m surprised more governments around the world aren’t pouring money into research like this. Not only is heart disease a huge killer, but it’s also a huge economic burden. How much does that cost? I would guess the figure must run to hundreds of billions of dollars.

So a single, once-in-a-lifetime treatment, with gene editing that could eliminate the problem of cholesterol in contributing to heart disease could save vast amounts of money. When you think of gene editing that way, it seems strange that more people don’t demand urgency in progressing it.