The gene therapy approach is now moving ... More information: Maximiliano Presa et al, Bone marrow transplantation increases ...

Somatic gene therapy targets non-reproductive cells in the body, such as bone marrow, blood cells, or liver cells. The genetic modifications are limited to the treated individual and are not inherited ...

Indiana University School of Medicine scientists have developed a powerful new imaging technique to study bone marrow in ...

Martin Mwita, 20, is the first patient in St. Louis and among the first across the country to receive a new gene therapy for ...

He added: “Great Ormond Street told us they couldn’t find a bone marrow match so they offered the gene therapy, I said ‘if that’s the only option they have, we have to do it’.

To date, the therapeutic results of gene therapy have been marginal ... adult stem cell therapies have been transplantations of bone marrow and peripheral blood stem cells to treat cancers ...