23 years old and free of the disease he was born with.
CRISPR switched his own cells back to making the hemoglobin he made as a baby, the kind that does not sickle. No more pain crises. No more transfusions.
As a doctor I stay careful with big words, but moments like this are exactly why I went into medicine.
happy pride month to all the neo-pronoun users & the micro label hoarders & the lesbians on t & trans women who dont voice train & nonbinary drag queens & trans men that let em hang your queerness doesn't not have to be palatable for you to be valid or for us to be family!