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The jab would be given twice a year. Girts Ragelis/ Shutterstock Aristides Tagalakis, Edge Hill University The NHS has very recently approved a new cholesterol-lowering jab which will be offered to 300,000 people over the next three years. The drug – inclisiran – will be administered twice a year as an injection. It will mainly be prescribed to patients who …

ImageFlow/Shutterstock Lucy van Dorp, UCL In early January, the first genome sequence of Sars-CoV-2 – the virus that causes COVID-19 – was released under the moniker “Wuhan-1”. This string of 30,000 letters (the A, T, C and Gs of the genetic code) marked day one in the race to understand the genetics of this newly discovered coronavirus. Now, a further …