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Reshaping Evolution

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Sickle Cell Disease

Sickle cell patient Victoria gray was the first to receive a crisper base therapy for her sickle cell disease. i think that's really what christopher offers, is that kind of a cure, really, for genetic disease. And i think it just paves the way for future applications of this technology as well. I mean, it goes from stopping a fatal disease to maybe optimizing for being thin and tall or having particular eye color.

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