theyre very intelligent creatures.

works by targeting the problematic gene in a patients bone marrow stem cells so that the body can make properly functioning hemoglobin.before doctors take stem cells from the patients bone marrow and use genetic editing techniques in a laboratory to fix the gene.

Patients typically require blood transfusions every few weeks.Britain approved a gene therapy for a fatal genetic disorder that had a list price of 2.Patients must be hospitalized at least twice once for the collection of the stem cells and then to receive the altered cells.

In people with sickle cell which is particularly common in people with African or Caribbean heritage a genetic mutation causes the cells to become crescent-shaped.Vertex has not released a potential price for the therapy.

have been the only long-lasting treatment.

the protein in red blood cells that carry oxygen.Police were alerted on Friday to the bodies on the Tsanfleuron glacier at 8.

BERLIN -- Swiss police say theyve formally identified two bodies found on an Alpine glacier as those of a couple missing for nearly 75 years.Valais canton (state) police said Wednesday that forensic experts using DNA analysis identified the two as Marcelin Dumoulin and his wife.

Regional police have a list going back to 1925 of missing people.told the Le Matin newspaper of Lausanne.