Posted by Rajeev
Saxena on November 6, 2009 ·
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 [...]