Here's your latest episode from the For Isley My Love CiVL News Roundup produced by CiVL.com.

This episode covers a groundbreaking gene therapy for beta-thalassemia, investigates human-caused whale deaths, and announces a newly identified psilocybin mushroom species.

• Base-editing gene therapy successfully treated 5 beta-thalassemia patients, ending monthly transfusions.

• The therapy reactivates fetal hemoglobin by editing the BCL11A gene.

• This base-editing approach builds on earlier CRISPR-based trials.

• Four sperm whales stranded in the southeastern US were emaciated due to human activity.

• Necropsies revealed fishing gear ingestion in two whales.

• Researchers cited fishing gear, seismic surveys, and shipping noise as threats to sperm whales.

• A new psilocybin mushroom species, Psi ...