Sentences with phrase «gene therapy trial set»
«Groundbreaking gene therapy trial set to cure hemophilia.»
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Some on the panel suggested they were particularly sensitive about such concerns given that it was at UPenn in 1999 that a young man, Jessie Gelsinger, died in a gene therapy trial, setting the field back for years.
In the same week that the trial was approved, the Medical Research Council announced that it was to set up its own committee to oversee its work in gene therapy.
Sadly only a few of these are associated with an sufficiently extensive set of evidence such that responsible human trials are an immediate possibility: myostatin knockout for muscle growth and telomerase gene therapies to offset some of the declines of aging.