{"id":903843,"date":"2026-05-06T05:19:48","date_gmt":"2026-05-06T10:19:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/06\/how-scientists-made-the-discoveries-behind-a-game-changing-gene-therapy-for-sickle-cell-disease-and-won-a-3-million-breakthrough-prize\/"},"modified":"2026-05-06T05:19:48","modified_gmt":"2026-05-06T10:19:48","slug":"how-scientists-made-the-discoveries-behind-a-game-changing-gene-therapy-for-sickle-cell-disease-and-won-a-3-million-breakthrough-prize","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/06\/how-scientists-made-the-discoveries-behind-a-game-changing-gene-therapy-for-sickle-cell-disease-and-won-a-3-million-breakthrough-prize\/","title":{"rendered":"How scientists made the discoveries behind a game-changing gene therapy for sickle cell disease and won a $3-million Breakthrough Prize"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Science &#038; Nature Stuart Orkin and Swee Lay Thein shared a Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences for their research on genetic causes of sickle cell disease and beta-thalassemia that set the stage for approved gene therapies. The treatments are not accessible to everyone, though&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scientificamerican.com\/article\/how-scientists-made-the-discoveries-behind-a-game-changing-gene-therapy-for-sickle-cell-disease-and-won-a-3-million-breakthrough-prize\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a>Margherita Pecora<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Science &#038; Nature Stuart Orkin and Swee Lay Thein shared a Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences for their research on genetic causes of sickle cell disease and beta-thalassemia that set the stage for approved gene therapies. The treatments are not accessible to everyone, though&#8230;Read MoreMargherita Pecora<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":903844,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27918,536,3807],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-903843","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-discoveries","8":"category-science-nature","9":"category-scientists"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/903843","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=903843"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/903843\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/903844"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=903843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=903843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=903843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}