Children with rare, incurable brain disease improve after gene therapy
Thursday, May 17, 2012 - 10:30
in Health & Medicine
Taiwanese doctors have restored some movement in four children bedridden with a rare, life-threatening neurological disease using gene transfer. The first-in-humans achievement may also be helpful for more common diseases such as Parkinson's.
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