Jean M
07-04-2015, 07:40 PM
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn27832-gene-therapy-works-in-cystic-fibrosis-for-the-first-time.html
Twenty six years after the gene responsible for cystic fibrosis was identified, researchers have shown that people with the lung-damaging condition can benefit from gene therapy. The improvement on lung function is small – just 3.7 per cent compared with a placebo group – but it validates the decades that researchers have spent trying to find a way to put healthy copies of the faulty gene into the lung cells of people with cystic fibrosis.
Twenty six years after the gene responsible for cystic fibrosis was identified, researchers have shown that people with the lung-damaging condition can benefit from gene therapy. The improvement on lung function is small – just 3.7 per cent compared with a placebo group – but it validates the decades that researchers have spent trying to find a way to put healthy copies of the faulty gene into the lung cells of people with cystic fibrosis.