Name: U.K. approves world's first gene therapy treatment for sickle cell - CBC News
Uploaded: 2023-11-17T04:00:16.000Z
Duration: 2 min 3 s
Description: Britain's medicines regulator has authorized the world's first gene therapy treatment for two blood disorders - sickle cell and thalassemia. Casgevy is the first medicine licensed using the gene-editing tool CRISPR, which won its makers a Nobel prize in 2020.

Britain's medicines regulator has authorized the world's first gene therapy treatment for two blood disorders - sickle cell and thalassemia. Casgevy is the first medicine licensed using the gene-editing tool CRISPR, which won its makers a Nobel prize in 2020.

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U.K. approves world's first gene therapy treatment for sickle cell

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