In July 2019, Victoria Gray, a young mother of four from Forest, Mississippi, became the first patient to receive a CRISPR-based therapy for sickle cell disease (SCD) through the exa-cel therapy trial ...

In July 2019, Victoria Gray woke up in a sunlit, pale green hospital room at Sarah Cannon Research Institute in Nashville. A frozen bag of her genetically edited blood cells thawed by her bed. Gray, a ...

Victoria Gray, the first person cured of sickle cell using CRISPR gene editing therapies, spoke in Fargo about her journey and the need to lower the $2M treatment cost. Victoria Gray, cured of sickle ...

Victoria Gray's life has been transformed by her treatment for sickle cell disease with the gene-editing technique called CRISPR. She's in London telling her story at a scientific summit. Some of the ...

Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. Last week, for the first time, doctors in the United States used the ...

Share on Pinterest Victoria Gray of Mississippi has been treated by Dr. Haydar Frangoul for sickle cell disease using the gene editing tool CRISPR. Photo courtesy of Victoria Gray. A Mississippi woman ...

Victoria Gray is the first person in the world to receive CRISPR, a gene-editing therapy for sickle cell disease created by Dr. Jennifer Doudna who won the Nobel Prize for the life saving technology.

Victoria Gray has sickle cell disease, a painful and debilitating genetic condition that affects millions of people around the world. But an experimental gene-editing technique known as CRISPR could ...

The gene-editing tool is being tested in people, and the first treatment could be approved this year. Forget about He Jiankui, the Chinese scientist who created gene-edited babies. Instead, when you ...

Some of the world's most celebrated experts on genetic engineering are in London this week to debate the promise and the peril of gene editing. Yesterday, the summit put the spotlight on one person, ...