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Teenager's sickle cell reversed with world-first therapy - BBC News
Teenager's sickle cell reversed with world-first therapy - BBC News
A French teenager's sickle cell disease has been reversed using a pioneering treatment to change his DNA. The world-first procedure at Necker Children's Hospital in Paris offers hope to millions of people with the blood disorder. Scientists altered the genetic instructions in his bone marrow so it made healthy red blood cells.
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