The Forever Fix: Gene Therapy and the Boy Who Saved It: 9781250015778: Medicine & Healt... - 0 views
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Lottie Peppers on 22 Jan 15Fascinating narrative science that explores the next frontier in medicine and genetics through the very personal prism of the children and families gene therapy has touched. Eight-year-old Corey Haas was nearly blind from a hereditary disorder when his sight was restored through a delicate procedure that made medical history. Like something from a science fiction novel, doctors carefully introduced viruses bearing healing genes into Corey's eyes-a few days later, Corey could see, his sight restored by gene therapy.