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Latecomer Boston labs eyeing gene therapy
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Little more than three years after physicians inserted genes from
a laboratory dish into little Ashanthi DeSilva's white blood cells in
an attempt to treat a lethal immune deficiency, the new science of
gene therapy is rapidly gaining momentum. Hospitals everywhere are
agonizing over how soon to join what may become a medical revolution.
Ashanthi and 12-year-old Cynthia Cutshall -- the second gene
therapy patient, afflicted with the same disease, known as ADA
deficiency -- are both doing well, and a federal panel has by now
approved nearly 70 gene therapy experiments on humans.
Through it all, ...
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