Cure Of Fatal Childhood Skin Disease On The Horizon
Tuesday, June 3, 2008 - 16:14
in Health & Medicine
Physicians have set the path to a cure for a young boy's fatal genetic skin disease, recessive dystrophic epidermolysis bullosa, by using a cord blood and bone marrow transplant. Nate Liao, a 25-month-old from Clarksburg, N.J., underwent the experimental therapy in October 2007.