Gene Therapy Shows Initial Promise for Parkinson’s Disease
Wednesday, April 3, 2019 - 08:31
in Health & Medicine
A delicate operation that involved placing a gene into the brain was found to reduce the severity of motor symptoms in patients with moderately advanced Parkinson’s disease, whose symptoms were no longer controlled by their medications. In a phase I gene therapy trial led by UC San Francisco, 15 patients were able to acquire up […]