Historic Gene Therapy Gives Young Louisiana Man a New Shot at Life

On Monday morning in New Orleans, 23-year-old Daniel Cressy rang a bell inside Manning Family Children’s hospital and stepped into what he calls “Life 2” — a life, for the first time, free of sickle cell disease. His treatment using Casgevy’s CRISPR/Cas9, a gene-editing technology, makes him the first patient in Louisiana and the Gulf […] The post Historic Gene Therapy Gives Young Louisiana Man a New Shot at Life appeared first on Capital B News.