HIV used to fix ‘bubble boy’ disease

US scientists have used HIV to make a gene therapy that cured eight infants of Severe Combined Immunodeficiency (SCID), or “bubble boy” disease. Results of the research have been published in the New England Journal of Medicine. The gene therapy involved collecting the babies’ bone marrow and correcting the genetic defect in their DNA soon… Continue reading HIV used to fix ‘bubble boy’ disease

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