News - Jesse Gelsinger
For the first time, doctors have used gene therapy to restore vision in patients with a rare and usually incurable form of blindness, researchers announced Sunday.
A virus used in a gene therapy experiment likely didn't cause the death of an Illinois woman suffering from rheumatoid arthritis, although it can't be completely ruled out, government health advisers said Monday.
SEATTLE _ The death of Jolee Mohr, the Illinois woman who developed a massive and fatal infection while testing a gene-therapy drug from Seattle-based Targeted Genetics, will get its first full public airing Monday at a meeting hosted by national health authorities.
By CARLA K. JOHNSON CHICAGO - A woman whose death in a gene therapy study shut it down and prompted a review of the safety of 28 other studies was experiencing multiple organ failure when she got to the hospital, a spokesman said.