New gene therapy halts 2 boys' rare brain disease

Thursday, November 5, 2009 - 17:29 in Health & Medicine

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....

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