Revolutionary gene therapy may offer new life for patients battling chronic sickle cell disease

Lyric Porter wanted her life back. Born with sickle cell disease, she had a fever at age 5 that scarred her lungs and required her to roll an oxygen tank to school. When she was growing up, clogged blood vessels racked her body with stabbing sensations and forced her to be hospitalized again and again. When she learned of a new experimental treatment at the University of Chicago Medicine to …