Gene therapy helps treat boy’s life-threatening skin disease — a first – The Hindu
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Gene therapy helps treat boy’s life-threatening skin disease — a first
The Hindu In this October 18, 2017 photo provided by the Ruhr University, doctors lift up a sheet of skin in a lab at St Josef-Hospital in Bochum, Germany. Doctors treating a critically-ill boy with a devastating skin disease used experimental gene therapy to … |
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Gene therapy saves boy’s life
The Hindu A boy who nearly died when disease stripped most of the skin from his body, is playing soccer two years after he received a new, gene-edited cover in an experimental procedure, the doctors who treated him have said. The boy, then seven years old, was … |
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