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Gene Therapy cures sickle cell in teenage boy
Next Big Future: Gene Therapy cures sickle cell in teenage boy
Gene Therapy is starting to help people!
A French teenager's sickle cell disease has been reversed using a pioneering gene therapy treatment. The world-first procedure at Necker Children's Hospital in Paris offers hope to millions of people with the blood disorder.
Doctors removed his bone marrow - the part of the body that makes blood. They then genetically altered it in a lab to compensate for the defect in his DNA that caused the disease. The altered bone marrow has been making healthy red blood cells for 15 months. He is no longer on any medication.
Next Big Future: Gene Therapy cures sickle cell in teenage boy
Gene Therapy is starting to help people!