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Posted On: 11/08/2017 9:54:58 PM
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"Doctors in Europe used gene therapy to grow sheets of healthy skin that saved the life of a 7-year-old boy with a genetic disease that had destroyed most of his skin, the team reported on Wednesday in the journal Nature.
This was not the first use of the treatment, which adds gene therapy to a technique developed to grow skin grafts for burn victims. But it was by far the most body surface ever covered in a patient with a genetic disorder: nine square feet."
"Doctors in Europe used gene therapy to grow sheets of healthy skin that saved the life of a 7-year-old boy with a genetic disease that had destroyed most of his skin, the team reported on Wednesday in the journal Nature.
This was not the first use of the treatment, which adds gene therapy to a technique developed to grow skin grafts for burn victims. But it was by far the most body surface ever covered in a patient with a genetic disorder: nine square feet."
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