Prenatal stem cell treatment targets rare genetic disease before birth

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Stanford Medicine pediatric hematologist Agnieszka Czechowicz, MD, Ph.D., has devoted her research career to improving treatments for rare blood disorders. She's an expert in Fanconi anemia, a genetic disease that interferes with DNA repair and blood cell production. By age 12, most people with the disease experience a life-threatening complication called bone marrow failure, in which the body's blood-cell factory stops functioning.

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