Monday 21 February 2022

Sickle cell: ‘The revolutionary gene-editing treatment that gave me new life’

Sickle cell: ‘The revolutionary gene-editing treatment that gave me new life’ Jimi Olaghere thought he would have to wait decades to be freed from his sickle cell disease - but now scientists have engineered his blood to overcome the disease which left him in constant pain.

"It's like being born again," says Jimi, one of the first seven sickle cell patients to have benefited from a revolutionary new gene-editing treatment being trialled in the US. He says it has changed his life. BBC News 

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