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"textContent": "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 […]\n\nThe post Historic Gene Therapy Gives Young Louisiana Man a New Shot at Life appeared first on Capital B News.",
"title": "Historic Gene Therapy Gives Young Louisiana Man a New Shot at Life"
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