Correcting sickle cell disease with stem cells
Wednesday, September 28, 2011 - 21:30
in Health & Medicine
Using a patient's own stem cells, researchers have corrected the genetic alteration that causes sickle cell disease, a painful, disabling inherited blood disorder that affects mostly African-Americans. The corrected stem cells were coaxed into immature red blood cells in a test tube that then turned on a normal version of the gene.