Good News Notes; “Elliot Preddie isn’t your average 12-year-old boy. ‘He just couldn’t enjoy life as a kid,’ said his mom, Tremesha. Elliot was born with sickle cell disease, an inherited blood disease which leads to blockages that prevent blood from reaching parts of the body. We first met Elliot last year at Riley Hospital for…
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This Company Wants to Rewrite the Future of Genetic Disease—Without Crispr Gene Editing
Good News Notes: “CRISPR’S POTENTIAL FOR curing inherited disease has made headlines, including at WIRED, for years. ( Here, here, here, and here.) Finally, at least for one family, the gene-editing technology is turning out to deliver more hope than hype. A year after 34-year-old Victoria Gray received an infusion of billions of Crispr’d cells, NPR reported last week that those cells were still…