Engineered version of HIV is used to cure genetic blood disorder

Thursday, September 16, 2010 - 07:21 in Health & Medicine

For the second time, researchers have used the HIV virus in gene therapy to cure a severe genetic disease, this time the blood disorder beta-thalassemia, which causes life-threatening anemia.

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