A patient on Long Island is the first in New York to be cured of sickle cell anemia, doctors say.
    • Confused_Emus@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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      6 days ago

      There are previous cases of sickle cell being cured by a bone marrow transplant. The first was in 1983. Although in that case it seems like curing her sickle cell wasn’t the goal - she was being treated for cancer.

      The first sickle cell patient treated with CRISPR was in about 2020.