Awesome!! 🌠
As cool as this truly is, what’s also wild is now this person doesn’t have the drastically higher chances of surviving Malaria! Sickle Cell requires both parents passing on a recessive gene that helps with Malaria. When one parent passes on the gene it doesn’t lead to sickle cell yet it provides the benefits against malaria 🤯
now this person doesn’t have the drastically higher chances of surviving Malaria
Do they not?
one parent passes on the gene it doesn’t lead to sickle cell yet it provides the benefits against malaria
The can’t have edited all of the patient’s cells, just enough of them to produce enough normal non-sickle blood cells to cure the disease. Would the remaining cells which still prosess the sickle-cell gene provide any protection against Malaria?
His chances of catching malaria in New Orleans are pretty slim, so I think that’s a fair trade-off. :)
Between climate change and the current US administration, malaria is starting to reappear over there (but I’m sure he’d rather risk it than stick with Sickle Cell+no piloting).
Twice lucky, probably in a free trial and it worked.
Editing stem cells in a lab sounds… expensive.For the others after him:
Now you can get cured from sickle cell for only $12 000 000!
