Man Functionally Cured From Dreaded Disease of Sickle Cell

A 23-year-old Louisiana man has become the first person in the Gulf Coast region to be declared functionally cured of sickle cell disease, marking a major milestone in the use of gene-editing technology to treat the inherited blood disorder. Daniel Cressy, of Metairie, Louisiana, underwent treatment with Casgevy, the world’s first approved CRISPR/Cas9 gene-editing therapy for sickle […]