According to Uganda's Ministry of Health, around 250,000 people in the country live with sickle cell disease, including an estimated 20,000 to 25,000 babies ...
The death, which investigators linked to a preparatory chemo treatment rather than Beam's medicine, highlights the risks of using decades-old transplant drugs alongside cutting-edge CRISPR medicines.
She said: "Whenever she had a sickle cell crisis, every admission [to hospital] was always a battle. "I’m glad to be working in Northamptonshire where we are looking at making a sickle cell ...