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Dr. Belin de Chantemele, Drs. Janis Coffin and Candee Burris discuss how salt sensitivity can affect blood pressure in a video interview.

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AUGUSTA, Ga. (WJBF) 鈥� Exciting research is underway at the Medical College of Georgia at 麻豆官网首页入口, especially when it comes to genetics. Promising results have already been discovered that could correct genetic problems and create disease models. It all starts with gene editing, in particular 鈥� prime editing. So what is prime editing? We take a closer look at the exciting research this week with Dr. Joseph Miano 鈥� a vascular biologist 鈥� and Dr. Lin Gan 鈥� a geneticist 鈥� both at MCG.

Chances are you or someone you know has cancer or heart disease. Those two kill more people every year in the U.S. than anything else. And they disproportionally impact people of color. Now the Medical College of Georgia is one of four institutions in the country selected to help study the correlation between cancer and heart disease. The American Heart Association gave $11 million to four different institutions, and MCG got $2.84 million of it. They showed us how they鈥檙e enlisting students in their fight.