June 19 is World Sickle Cel Day. Danielle Lee has suffered from Sickle Cell disease, it is possible, thanks to a groundbreaking clinic trial her days of suffering are behind her.
“I’ve been snorkeling. I’ve been ziplining. I wanted to go skydiving just to prove to myself that I could do it,” she told News 5. The aspiring actress dreams of being an action star. “I want to do stunts like Tom Cruise,” she said. “I think it’s so cool. I’m an adrenaline junkie.” She even left her home in Cleveland to try and make it big in Los Angeles. But there was one big setback to her dreams.
The disease affected every aspect of her life. She had to change colleges several times to get her degree. “I was afraid that I would end up worse off than what it was because I know sickle cell. I know, you know, I kind of know the drill.” But with an action role in mind, she eventually got on board. Danielle’s doctors withdrew her stem cells, separating them into their component parts. Her DNA was shipped away to be rewritten by gene editing technology known as CRISPR. The new stem cells would tell her body to make healthy, round red blood cells, rather than cells that could “sickle.
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