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 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
Hindu parents are very careful to ascertain the health of a suitor, and should they suspect any inherited disease, such as consumption, they reject him remorselessly.
From Tales of Bengal by S. B. Banerjea
