The promise of gene editing to upend how we treat heart disease and transform pharma

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Welcome to Insider Healthcare. I'm Lydia Ramsey Pflanzer, and today in healthcare news:

• We got an inside look at biotechs that are using gene-editing to transform medicine;
• What expanding access to high-speed internet means for the future of telehealth;
• 2 people who got COVID-19 after being vaccinated share what to expect from a breakthrough infection.

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Investors are betting billions that cutting-edge cures can upend how we treat heart disease and transform pharma

• Gene editing has become one of biotech's hottest advances this year.
• The tech carries the promise of curing diseases with one treatment, upending the drug industry.
• Insider toured some of the leading gene-editing biotech labs and spoke with industry leaders.

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The US is helping millions of people get faster internet, and it could shape the next phase of telehealth

• Pandemic subsidies could mean more people can access the internet and telehealth services.
• Experts said it may be a good time for virtual care, though insurance needs to be cemented.
• But there's still more work to ensure equitable broadband and telehealth access, they said.

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You will know, or possibly be, someone who gets COVID-19 after a vaccine

• Breakthrough cases will become more common as the more transmissible Delta variant keeps spreading.
• But most disease experts still expect COVID-19 to be milder in vaccinated people.
• Two young people who got sick after they were vaccinated described how their symptoms progressed.

Here's what to expect>>

More stories we're reading:

• 8 weeks between shots is the 'sweet spot' for giving Pfizer's two-dose COVID-19 vaccine, UK researchers say (Insider)
• 4 reasons why one science reporter is wearing a mask again (The Atlantic)
• 1 in 5 COVID-19 infections in LA in June were in fully vaccinated people, but most had mild or no symptoms, officials say (Insider)
• Virtual doctors visits may have peaked (Axios)

- Lydia