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Today, a win for RFK Jr., as an FDA panel narrowly voted in favor of allowing compounding pharmacies to produce certain unregulated peptides. Also, in heart-wrenching detail, Science writes of the six-year-old girl who died in China after receiving an experimental, brain-directed CRISPR therapy.

The Readout’s taking a summer break next week, so we’ll see you in August!

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