What Next: TBD | Is Sickle Cell Anemia…Cured?

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🗓️ 24 November 2024

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Last May, a 12-year-old with sickle cell anemia was the first person to receive a new gene therapy to treat the disease. The process is painful, expensive, and still frightening and uncertain, but biomedical researchers are cautiously calling it a “cure.” Guests: Gina Kolata, medical reporter for the New York Times Deb and Keith Cromer, parents to Kendric Cromer, the first person in the world to go through a commercially approved gene therapy for sickle cell anemia. Want more What Next TBD? Subscribe to Slate Plus to access ad-free listening to the whole What Next family and all your favorite Slate podcasts. Subscribe today on Apple Podcasts by clicking “Try Free” at the top of our show page. Sign up now at slate.com/whatnextplus to get access wherever you listen. Podcast production by Evan Campbell, Patrick Fort, and Cheyna Roth. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:02.2	Can you guys tell me a little bit about Kendrick?
1:07.0	I think we could describe him as dynamic, very charismatic, compassionate, all the qualities I think that you would want in a kid.
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1:22.5	Deb Kromer and her husband Keith are describing their 12-year-old son, Kendrick.
1:27.1	Kendrick was born with sickle cell anemia.
1:32.0	A few weeks ago, my colleague Lizzie O'Leary talked to them about their experience.
1:37.9	I remember the day that we found out, Kendrick, was less than two weeks old.
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