Canadian ‘ecstatic’ as U.K. approves gene therapy for sickle cell disease
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Beverly Ndukwu lives with sickle cell disease, a genetic mutation that causes pain she describes as a constant stabbing knife. She tells Matt Galloway what it’s like managing that pain, and why she’s “ecstatic” that the U.K. has now approved the world's first gene therapy treatment for the disease, using the gene-editing tool CRISPR.