NHS approves groundbreaking sickle cell treatment

A groundbreaking treatment for sickle cell disease will be offered on the NHS for the first time – at a list price of £1.65 million. (Subscribe: https://bit.ly/C4_News_Subscribe)

The gene-editing therapy, known as exa-cel, will be limited to around 50 people a year, who have severe Sickle Cell. And It works by editing out the faulty Sickle gene in sufferers.

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