St. Jude, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard advance ‘potentially curative approach’ for sickle cell disease

Millions of people are afflicted with the debilitating effects of sickle cell disease, which predominately affects individuals of African descent. In a metro that is majority Black, like Memphis, such a disease is life-altering for thousands of patients and their families. St. Jude Children's Research Hospital announced today, April 17, a "potentially curative approach" where the hospital's researchers, in conjunction with the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, showed that a type of precise gene …
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