Gene-replacement therapy is helping children overcome fatal diseases
Changing defective genes with wholesome ones has enabled a number of kids with uncommon genetic issues to have typical life experiences, reminiscent of attending faculty and residing with their households
Health
27 Could 2022
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Youngsters with some uncommon genetic situations who would have as soon as died at only a few years outdated may now have typical life expectations on account of gene-replacement remedy.
“We’re curing youngsters of deadly illnesses. It’s fantastic,” says Donald Kohn on the College of California, Los Angeles.
Kohn and his colleagues are trialling a gene remedy – by which disease-causing variations of genes are changed with usually functioning variations – for leukocyte adhesion deficiency type-1 (LAD-1).
This uncommon situation happens …
Article amended on 30 Could 2022
This text has been amended to appropriate the date the infants with X-SCID began receiving gene remedy.
