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Gene therapy helps patients avoid blood transfusion [CNN]

bluebird bio, Inc. (BLUE) 
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Gene therapy helps patients avoid blood transfusion Even though it rarely affected her dance lessons, she also remembers being sick -- very sick. Sihanath, now 22, was diagnosed as a young child with the genetic blood disorder beta thalassemia. She was treated with occasional blood transfusions, which became monthly when she turned 14. "I knew for a fact I was sick and I definitely wasn't normal like every other kid, but it never really personally affected me," said Sihanath, now a graduating senior majoring in biomedical engineering at Arizona State University. The blood transfusions were a normal part of her life, she said -- until she participated in a gene therapy study in 2014. As part of that study, Sihanath was the first patient to receive a transplantation in her blood of her own genetically modified stem cells to treat the beta thalassemia. "I've been transfusion-free since my transplant," Sihanath said. "I have high hopes for the future of thalassemia," she said. "We are get Show less Read more
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