A Revolutionary Experiment To Edit Human Genes

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🗓️ 4 November 2019

⏱️ 13 minutes

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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 help her — and, if it does, change the way many genetic diseases are treated. Correspondent Rob Stein tells her story, an NPR-exclusive, and explains the science behind her treatment. Follow host Maddie Sofia on Twitter @maddie_sofia. Email the show at [email protected].

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0:00.0	You're listening to shortwave from NPR.
0:06.0	Maddie Sifaya here with NPR Health Correspondent Rob Stein.
0:09.5	How's it going Rob?
0:10.5	Going great.
0:11.5	I'm really excited to be on your cool new podcast Maddie.
0:13.5	Welcome to shortwave.
0:14.5	Thank you.
0:15.5	So Rob, today you're bringing us a story about a medical experiment that a lot of people
0:19.5	in the scientific world are paying really close attention to.
0:22.7	Yeah, you know, it's arguably the hottest medical study in decades.
0:26.7	And NPR got exclusive access to follow the very first patient through this pioneering
0:31.8	experiment.
0:32.8	Can I just say how cool that is Rob?
0:34.7	Yeah, it took a lot of work and we're really excited about it.
0:37.4	Rob, you're very cool.
0:38.4	Thanks.
0:39.4	Well, it sucks.
0:43.4	You know, the woman at the center of this experiment is Victoria Gray.
0:47.5	Victoria is in room seven.
0:49.5	I met Victoria over the summer at the Sarah Cannon Research Institute.
0:53.1	It's in Nashville.
0:54.4	Hello.
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