Posted on Dec 11, 2023
FDA approves cure for sickle cell disease, the first treatment to use CRISPR
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The Food and Drug Administration on Friday approved a powerful treatment for sickle cell disease, a devastating illness that affects more than 100,000 Americans, the majority of whom are Black.
The therapy, called Casgevy, from Vertex Pharmaceuticals and CRISPR Therapeutics, is the first medicine to be approved in the United States that uses the gene-editing tool CRISPR, which won its inventors the Nobel Prize in chemistry in 2020.
The therapy, called Casgevy, from Vertex Pharmaceuticals and CRISPR Therapeutics, is the first medicine to be approved in the United States that uses the gene-editing tool CRISPR, which won its inventors the Nobel Prize in chemistry in 2020.
FDA approves cure for sickle cell disease, the first treatment to use CRISPR
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I sure hope this helps people. I've ridden a bunch of Bike-a-thons for sickle cell disease fundraisers.
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When I started in Nursing Sickle Cell disease patients lived to their twenties. When I left nursing 36 years later sickle cell patients were living into mid 40’s. Now we may have a cure. The majority of sickle cell patients are black. Interesting that the most racist nation in the world, according to liberals, is at the for front of halting this scourge!
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