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Rice University Researchers

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Rice University researchers, from left, So Hyun Park, Gang Bao and Timothy Davis, are advancing gene-editing techniques to help patients with sickle cell disease. They are part of the team that discovered an unexpected boost in fetal hemoglobin production, which mutes the effect of the disease.

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