Conditions & Recovery · NY Times Health · September 8, 2026

A Newer Kind of Gene Editing Promises to Edit ‘Nurture’ Over ‘Nature’

Traditional gene editing rewrites DNA. But a new approach, called epigenome editing, aims to treat the molecular scars we collect throughout our lives.

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