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How a Louisiana boy was functionally cured of sickle cell disease

A 15 year old boy is the first child in Louisiana to be functionally cured of sickle cell disease. How are doctors doing it? We’ll talk with Dr. Ben Watkins, Director of the Stem Cell Transplant and Cellular Therapy Program at Manning Family Children's and Associate Professor of Pediatrics at the Tulane School of Medicine.

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