Very important advance!

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Very important advance!
Professor Merlin Crossley and his team have shown that changing just a single letter of the DNA of human red blood cells in the laboratory increases their production of oxygen-carrying haemoglobin, a world-first advance that could lead to a cure for sickle cell anaemia and other blood disorders.
Read more:
http://newsroom.unsw.edu.au/news/science-tech/new-age-genome-editing-could-lead-cure-sickle-cell-anaemia

Research article:
Editing the genome to introduce a beneficial naturally occurring mutation associated with increased fetal globin
http://www.nature.com/ncomms/2015/150514/ncomms8085/full/ncomms8085.html

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