Millions of people are afflicted with the debilitating effects of sickle cell disease, which predominately affects individuals of African descent. In a metro that is majority Black, like Memphis, such a disease is life-altering for thousands of patients and their families.
St. Jude Children's Research Hospital announced today, April 17, a "potentially curative approach" where the hospital's researchers, in conjunction with the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, showed that a type of precise gene…
