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gene-editing towards sickle cell disease treatment

Currently, the only established method to cure sickle cell disease is a bone marrow transplant. Few patients have matched donors, however, and even with a match, patients risk serious infections and adverse, sometimes deadly, immune responses. New  promising experimental therapies which rely on introducing new DNA into a patient or using Crispr technology in order to edit a patient’s own DNA . DO you think that these treatments, can cause adverse effects, such as unwanted genetic damage?

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