US gene therapy trials set to resume
Most US gene therapy trials that use viruses to deliver genes to bone marrow cells should be allowed to continue, Food and Drug Administration (FDA) advisors decided at a meeting held last Friday. Gene therapy trials for X-linked severe combined immune deficiency (X-SCID) were suspended in the US and several...
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Who's the daddy?
by Juliet Tizzard
This week's BioNews reports on the recent High Court ruling that the biological father in the case of the IVF embryo mix-up is also the legal father. This might sound like common sense until the facts of the case are made clear. Mr and Mrs A have two children, twin...