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Gene editing may aid sickle-cell disease – Hunter Valley News
Scientists are seeing promising early results from the first studies testing gene editing for painful, inherited blood disorders that plague millions worldwid……
Scientists are seeing promising early results from the first studies testing gene editing for painful, inherited blood disorders that plague millions worldwide.
Doctors hope the one-time treatment, which involves permanently altering DNA in blood cells may treat and possibly cure sickle-cell disease and beta thalassemia.
Partial results were presented on Saturday at an American Society of Hematology conference and some were published by the New England Journal of Medicine.
Doctors described 10 patients…
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