WASHINGTON (AP) -- French scientists mixed gene therapy and bone marrow transplants in two boys to seemingly halt a brain disease that can kill by adolescence. The surprise ingredient: They disabled the HIV virus so it couldn't cause AIDS, and then used it to carry in the healthy new gene....
New Gene Therapy Halts 2 Boys' Rare Brain Disease
By LAURAN NEERGAARD, Associated Press: Health
Thu, 11/05/2009 - 3:12pm
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