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Jalen Matthews sits on her yoga mat in her home in Louisville, Ky., Monday, Dec. 4, 2023. She was diagnosed with sickle cell at birth and had her first pain crisis at age 9. Three years later, the disease led to a spinal cord stroke that left her with some paralysis in her left arm and leg. “I had to learn how to walk again, feed myself, clothe myself, basically learn how to do everything all over again,” said Matthews, who is now 26. (AP Photo/Timothy D. Easley)

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FDA approves 2 gene therapies for sickle cell. One is the first to use the editing tool CRISPR
By LAURA UNGAR - AP Science Writer
Fri,12/08/23-10:57AM , 78 Reads
Regulators on Friday approved two gene therapies for sickle cell disease that doctors hope can cure the painful, inherited blood disorder that afflicts mostly Black people in the U.S.
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Technicians work with bioreactors at the Believer Meats facility in Rehovot, Israel on Feb. 13, 2023. Animal cells are placed inside bioreactors and bathed in a nutrient-rich broth where they multiply. The paste of cells is harvested and mixed with plant proteins, then pressurized and pushed out to create meat fibers. (AP Photo/Emma H. Tobin)

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Meat made from cells, not livestock, is here. But will it ever replace traditional meat?
By LAURA UNGAR - AP Science Writer
Thu,11/16/23-9:38AM , 147 Reads
A familiar aroma wafted through the Believer Meats test kitchen earlier this year as Research and Development Chef Andres Voloschin flipped sizzling strips of chicken conjured from cells.
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Technicians work with bioreactors at the Believer Meats facility in Rehovot, Israel on Feb. 13, 2023. Animal cells are placed inside bioreactors and bathed in a nutrient-rich broth where they multiply. The paste of cells is harvested and mixed with plant proteins, then pressurized and pushed out to create meat fibers. (AP Photo/Emma H. Tobin)

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Meat made from cells, not livestock, is here. But will it ever replace traditional meat?
By LAURA UNGAR - AP Science Writer
Thu,11/16/23-9:34AM , 51 Reads
A familiar aroma wafted through the Believer Meats test kitchen earlier this year as Research and Development Chef Andres Voloschin flipped sizzling strips of chicken conjured from cells.

Through glass walls, he could see the large tanks where the cells grow.
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This July 2019 image provided by the Sarah Cannon Research Institute shows Victoria Gray on her infusion day during a gene editing trial for sickle cell disease at the Sarah Cannon Research Institute and The Children's Hospital At TriStar Centennial in Nashville. Gray, the first patient to test the treatment, shared her experience with researchers at a scientific conference in 2023. She described suffering with terrible bouts of pain since childhood and receiving high-dose pain medications and sometimes blood transfusions. She described feeling she "was being reborn” the day she got the gene therapy. (Anthem Pictures/Sarah Cannon Research Institute via AP, File)

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A new cure for sickle cell disease may be coming. Health advisers will review it next week
By LAURA UNGAR - AP Science Writer
Fri,10/27/23-10:47AM , 77 Reads
The only cure for painful sickle cell disease today is a bone marrow transplant. But soon there may be a new cure that attacks the disorder at its genetic source.
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