Canadian ecstatic as U.K. approves gene therapy for sickle cell disease
Beverly Ndukwu lives with sickle cell disease, a genetic mutation that causes pain she describes as a constant stabbing knife. She tells Matt Galloway what it\u2019s like managing that pain, and why she\u2019s \u201cecstatic\u201d that the U.K. has now approved the world's first gene therapy treatment for the disease, using the gene-editing tool CRISPR.