Italian researchers have managed to silence a gene associated with high cholesterol levels. The work, carried out in mice, shows that the effects persisted throughout the year that the experiment lasted.

Results suggest that it is possible to solve chronic health problems in a single day and forever. Epigenetic editing has advantages over DNA modification, says Angelo Lombardo, a biotechnologist from the San Raffaele Telethon Institute of Gene Therapy, in Milan. The company Chroma Medicine plans to “revolutionize the treatment of diseases” through epigenetic editing.