Resumen de Nowhere to hide for faulty genes
Geddes discusses gene therapy. After years of setbacks, gene therapy is back on track. SCID was the first condition to be treated with gene therapy more than 20 years ago. A virus was used to replace a faulty gene with a healthy one. But in subsequent trials, four young patients were diagnosed with leukemia two years after receiving a similar treatment. An 18-year-old also died following a reaction to a virus used in gene therapy for a liver condition. It was the start of a rocky road of gene therapy.
