Gene therapy’s cellular benefits remain decades after treatment – Devdiscourse

During an international collaboration recently between Great Ormond Street Hospital, the UCL GOS Institute for Child Health, and Harvard Medical School, it was found that the beneficial effects of gene therapy can be seen decades after the transplanted blood stem cells have been cleared by the body. The research team monitored five patients who were successfully cured of SCID-X1 using gene therapy at GOSH. For 3-18 years patients’ blood was regularly analysed to detect which cell types and biomarker…

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