An exiciting step forward. Quoted in the article.
‘This is the first time that an FDA-approved gene therapy was given to a patient for any inherited disease’
“This is the first time that an FDA-approved gene therapy was given to a patient for any inherited disease,” says surgeon Jason Comander of Mass. Eye and Ear.
Follow up on this - Looks like good news for Jack Hogan and Mass. Eye and Ear in Boston.
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