Saudi Arabia cracks Thalassemia code through CRISPR
- 31-Aug-2024
RIYADH: Saudi Arabia’s King Abdulaziz Medical City in Riyadh (KAMC-RD) has successfully treated a teenager’s thalassemia employing Casgevy gene therapy through clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats (CRISPR) gene editing technology. The treatment of a 13-year-old patient suffering from thalassemia major by the King Abdulaziz Medical City in Riyadh (KAMC-RD), under the Ministry of National […]