Sentences with phrase «treat severe combined immunodeficiency»
Immune cells from 4 - year - old Ashanti DeSilva are given working versions of the ADA gene to treat severe combined immunodeficiency disorder (SCID).
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Fischer, in 2000, reported demonstrating the clinical efficacy of gene therapy for the first time, using blood stem cells to treat a fatal genetic disorder called X-linked severe combined immunodeficiency.
This was a virus - mediated therapeutic gene to treat X-linked severe combined immunodeficiency.
The first gene therapy trials were carried out in 1990 treating a four - year old patient who suffered from severe combined immunodeficiency (SCID)(1).