The Forever Fix: Gene Therapy and the Boy Who Saved It Written By Ricki Lewis

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Fascinating 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.THE FOREVER FIX is the first?book to tell the fascinating story of gene therapy: how it works, the science behind it, how patients (mostly children) have been helped and harmed, and how scientists learned from each trial to get one step closer to its immense promise, the promise of a "forever fix," - a cure that, by fixing problems at their genetic root, does not need further surgery or medication.Told through the voices of the children and families who have been the

Detail Book The Forever Fix: Gene Therapy and the Boy Who Saved It

Author : Ricki Lewis

Pages : 336 pages

Publisher : St. Martin's Griffin

Language :

ISBN-10 : 1250015774

ISBN-13 : 9781250015778