Tag: stem – cell transplants

  • Why is she in pain now that her disease has been cured?

    Why is she in pain now that her disease has been cured?

    US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved two gene therapy treatments for sickle-cell disease last year, including the first CRISPR-based genome-editing therapy the agency has ever authorized. Both stem-cell transplants and gene therapy require chemotherapy before the treatment. Three rounds of chemotherapy and other treatments drove her cancer into remission, but she still struggles with…