Can gene therapy cure fatal diseases in children?
Wednesday, September 5, 2012 - 08:01
in Health & Medicine
That low bone density causes osteoporosis and a risk of fracture is common knowledge. But an excessively high bone density is also harmful. The most serious form of excessively high bone density is a rare, hereditary disease which can lead to the patient’s death by the age of only five. Researchers in Sweden are now trying to develop gene therapy against this disease.