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Sickle Cell Disease: First Patient to Receive Treatment
Kendric Cromer, a 12-year-old boy from Washington, the United States, is the world’s first patient suffering from sickle cell disease to undergo a commercially approved gene therapy, one that gives hope to thousands of people dealing with the painful genetic disorder of red blood cells.
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Scientists Uncover the Last Missing Parts of Our DNA!
For the very first time, an open and community-based consortium of scientists managed to sequence the entire human genome, including the 8% of DNA missing from the two first attempts, finally giving us the complete set of human genetics.