‘Like a spelling mistake’: B.C. teen’s DNA ‘corrected’ to cure rare disease | Globalnews.ca
[ad_1] A doctor at B.C. Children’s Hospital says he was delighted to tell one of his patients that he had been cured of his condition. Nineteen-year-old Kelowna, B.C., resident Ty Sperle was diagnosed at the age of five with chronic granulomatous disease. “The helpful way to think about it is that we’re surrounded by bacteria […]
B.C. man cured of rare disease in world-first for new gene-editing technology | Globalnews.ca
[ad_1] Ty Sperle says he felt “insane shock” after learning he’d been cured of a rare genetic disease through a clinical trial using a new gene-editing treatment. The B.C. man says he’d started that day last year feeling hopeless, but the news he was cured filled him with indescribable happiness. Sperle is the first person […]