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Yes, there is a company whose name escapes me working on it - Bluebird? You insert the correct hemoglobin gene and express it at a high enough level that you drive the percentage of sickle hemoglobin low enough that you no longer get the sickle cell crises.

Last I read they were having trouble getting durable expression.



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