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Rapper-turned-director Keenan Bristol raises awareness of blood shortages through film, 'Students Are Heroes' * Brooklyn Paper

Keenan Bristol's film aims to inspire young BIPOC individuals to donate blood, addressing a critical shortage and raising sickle cell disease awareness.

New technique opens the door to large-scale DNA editing to cure diseases

Gene editing corrects diseases like sickle cell anemia by replacing a defective gene with a working one using CRISPR technology.
New genetic editing mechanism uses jumping genes to introduce long DNA sequences with potential for higher precision in editing and genome alteration.
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