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Last May, a 12-year-old with sickle cell anemia was the first person to receive a new gene therapy to treat the disease. The process is painful, expensive, and still frightening and uncertain, but biomedical researchers are cautiously calling it a “cure.”
Guests:
Gina Kolata, medical reporter for the New York Times
Deb and Keith Cromer, parents to Kendric Cromer, the first person in the world to go through a commercially approved gene therapy for sickle cell anemia.
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Podcast production by Evan Campbell, Patrick Fort, and Cheyna Roth.
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Last May, a 12-year-old with sickle cell anemia was the first person to receive a new gene therapy to treat the disease. The process is painful, expensive, and still frightening and uncertain, but biomedical researchers are cautiously calling it a “cure.”
Guests:
Gina Kolata, medical reporter for the New York Times
Deb and Keith Cromer, parents to Kendric Cromer, the first person in the world to go through a commercially approved gene therapy for sickle cell anemia.
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Podcast production by Evan Campbell, Patrick Fort, and Cheyna Roth.
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