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Fatal Brain Illness Halted In Mid Stride With Gene Therapy.

Fatal Brain Illness Halted In Mid Stride With Gene Therapy.

A team of international scientists have successfully controlled the spread of a rare almost always fatal brain illness called X-linked adrenoleukodystrophy (ALD) with the use of a new kind of gene therapy. The experimental gene therapy involved the use of a defunct version of the AIDS virus. The X-ALD is form of a deadly but rare genetic brain disease [...]