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China’s base-editing therapy CS-101 freed all five patients with β-thalassemia from transfusions and restored hemoglobin levels to 12.4 g/dL within 3 months. The treatment edits patients’ own hematopoietic stem cells, and the median time from administration to the final transfusion was just 18 days. After a mean follow-up of 23 months, the treatment’s effects persisted without any deaths or cancer cases, supporting its safety.

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