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Podcast: We Love Science
Episode: Ep 47: The CRISPR Cure for Sickle Cell Disease
Description: In this fourth installment of the CRISPR Chronicles, show hosts Fatu and Shekerah give a review of sickle cell anemia, the cause and symptoms of the disease, and discuss how the CRISPR gene therapy treatment works.Tune in to learn more about:The genetic basis of Sickle Cell DiseaseWhat Amazon delivery vans have in common with your Red Blood CellsThe effect of mutant hemoglobin on Red Blood CellsThe variety and severity of symptoms that SCD patients experienceThe disease burden of SCD throughout the worldThe clever strategy used to treat the disease with CRISPR gene therapyThe results o...