Scid

... * Progeria * Pseudoxanthoma Elasticum * Ptosis * Rentinitis Pigmentosa * Scheie Syndrome * Schizophrenia * Severe Combined Immunodeficiency (SCID) * Sickle Cell Anemia * Skeletal Dysplasias * Smith-Magenis Syndrome * Spherocytosis * Spina Bifida * Spinocerebellar Ataxia * Stargardt Disease ...

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I will just post some more on SCID here; SCID (severe combined immunodeficiency) was chosen as a proff of principle because it is possible to do ex vivo gene therapy, that is one can isolate or enrich for putative stem cells from a bone ...

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Ok so gene therapy can cure SCID? I was told that there wasnt a definant cure for it. In order for it to work you would have to keep on injecting the good DNA?

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... own DNA. Any desease that can be cured by that could theoretically be cured by gene therapy. The first desease to be cured through this method was SCID.

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... used Kyle: i saw a documentary on discovery... It's already been done. I don't remember any details though... I think the first such desease was SCID. It hasn't been cured, but it has such a genetic treatment

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