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New Gene Therapy Approach Developed for Red Blood Cell Disorders

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souly:
The gene therapy conducted by Prof. Philippe Leboulch has been very promising as well. He did one successful case in France in 2007 and last year in October he started his second patient in Thailand. Upto February during the TIF conference in Bangkok, he mentionned that the second patient was stabilizing. I had personally met him and asked him with regard to the future  of gene therapy. He told me that upon the success of this second case he will expand the trial to more population, not just one, and It is not going to be five years interval as before. It is going to happen soon. Although he did not mention very clearly as he did not want to give too much confidence on that, if everything is going well as planned, the  gene therapy will become a reality in less than five years.

Let's pray and hope that this dream becomes true and the life of thalassaemics will be the same those of the normal kids.

Souly

aabha:
Hoping things move fast and the treatment is accessible to all thals as soon as possible.
aabha

Canadian_Family:
Thanks everybody for their input.

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