A lot can happen "in our children's lifetime." That's about 80 years, give or take a decade or so. "Eighty years is a long time," says Dr. Cori Bargmann, a neuroscientist at the Rockefeller University and newly named president of science for the Chan Zuckerberg initiative. "When I was a kid, there were no statins, there was no bypass surgery, no stents. Your friend's father would have a heart attack, and he would die." Today, roughly 40-plus years after Bargmann's childhood, a million people a year have either surgery to bypass clogged arteries or the implantation of stents to unblock dangerously clogged arteries — extending millions of lives.
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