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New Advances in Sickle-Cell Disease Treatment
About -1 in every 12 African Americans- carries the gene mutation that causes sickle-cell disease, which ultimately affects 1 in 500 people of African descent. Sickle-cell disease can cause serious disability, and even death, in sufferers of nearly all ages. Treatments have helped to reduce the impacts of this potentially deadly condition, but so far, all efforts have worked merely to slow it down,...
January 28, 2021