Teenager's sickle cell reversed with world-first therapy

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[QUOTE][B]A French teenager's sickle cell disease has been reversed using a pioneering treatment to change his DNA.[/B]

The world-first procedure at Necker Children's Hospital in Paris offers hope to millions of people with the blood disorder.

Scientists altered the genetic instructions in his bone marrow so it made healthy red blood cells.

So far, the therapy has worked for 15 months and the child is no longer on any medication.[/QUOTE]

[URL]http://www.bbc.com/news/health-39142971?ocid=wsnews.chat-apps.in-app-msg.whatsapp.trial.link1_.auin[/URL]

[Derek_SM]

Fucking science, man.

[Download]

Great to see gene therapy coming along. Hopefully we can eradicate other genetic diseases soon.

[스카치 여우]

If gene therapy works out well for sickle cell I hope it works for hearing restoration because I need it.

[srobins]

That's awesome, hopefully this or something like it will become standard, sickle cell sucks. Every sickle cell patient I ever had was constantly groaning, apparently it just feels absolutely awful all over.

[Lowland]

On the downside, he can now contract malaria.

[😹 WHO DID THIS]

[QUOTE=V12US;51910191]On the downside, he can now contract malaria.[/QUOTE]
Atleast he won't be a commie anymore.

[Bahamut88]

Damn, we're making strides in medicine and science lately. Hope it only goes up from here.

[Loopoo]

It'd be really cool if we advanced to the point where we could reprogram the body not to form scar tissue, and instead regenerate like a lizard does. Then once healing is complete, revert the body back to it's normal scar program.

[LoneWolf_Recon]

[QUOTE=loopoo;51917365]It'd be really cool if we advanced to the point where we could reprogram the body not to form scar tissue, and instead regenerate like a lizard does. Then once healing is complete, revert the body back to it's normal scar program.[/QUOTE]

Look into Somatic Stem Cell Differentiation.

[Loli Lover]

I hope one day we can fix tinnitus so I can stop dealing with that terrible thing.

[Zonesylvania]

This is amazing news.

[Froztshock]

What the fuck? I didn't realize that actual honest to god gene therapy was at the real clinical trial phase.

Holy shit!