Prevention November 28, 2020
Meryl Davids Landau
It was a devastating year in many ways, but 2020 also brought us life-changing developments.
Yes, it’s been a challenging and often tragic year when it comes to health. But our hardest times often push us to our greatest achievements, and there’s a lot of progress to be excited about in 2021—like these seven advances.
Gene therapy for repairing sickle cell disease
The idea is simple: Take a defective gene, fix it, and cure a devastating genetic disease. Getting that to work has been tougher, but this year scientists at several research centers made remarkable progress with
sickle cell disease. The condition—caused by an inherited defect in the gene producing hemoglobin...
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