CRISPR gene editing reveals biological mechanism behind common blood disorder - National Herald

The study, published in the journal Blood, will help researchers investigate new therapeutic approaches for one of the world's most devastating genetic blood disorders, sickle cell disease

"Interestingly, when children are born, they do not show disease symptoms at first, even if they have the mutations, because, at that stage, they are still expressing foetal globin and not yet adult … [+840 chars]

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