Victoria Gray has sickle cell disease, a painful and debilitating genetic condition that affects millions of people around the world.

But an experimental gene-editing technique known as CRISPR could help her — and, if it does, change the way many genetic diseases are treated. Correspondent Rob Stein tells her story, an NPR-exclusive.

This episode was produced by Brent Baughman and Maddie Sofia and edited by Viet Le.

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