
A cardiologist says embracing diversity will catalyze medical research
The Future of Everything
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Is This a New Class of Drugs That Can Interfere With High Calestoral?
This is a very exciting discovery related to coronary artery disease and some major new classes of drugs that can interfere with high callestoral. There was nothing in the redoubt when she was just looking at genomes from people from european ancestry. But when she broadened it and started to look at jenomes from african she and this mutation that was associated with lowering of clestral known as loss of function mutation. And that led to the development of the most powerful drug that there is for colastol. So that's within the science. In that kind of example, is compelling for a scientist, to have them broadeng their scope of research. Now, the identity diversity
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