Doctors fix ‘bubble baby disease’ using AIDS virus in gene therapy
Updated May 11, 2021;
Posted May 11, 2021
This October 2013 photo provided by the family shows Josselyn Kish on the day she received a gene therapy treatment at UCLA Mattel Children’s Hospital in Los Angeles. Born without a working immune system because of an inherited genetic flaw, Josselyn suffered rashes, painful shingles and frequent diarrhea as a baby, said her mother, Kim Carter. After the gene therapy, she was better right away, Carter said. (Family photo via AP)AP
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By MARILYNN MARCHIONE, AP Chief Medical Writer
A gene therapy that makes use of an unlikely helper, the AIDS virus, gave a working immune system to 48 babies and toddlers who were born without one, doctors reported Tuesday.
A worker in a protective suit is seen at the closed seafood market in Wuhan, Hubei province, China January 10, 2020. Photo: Reuters/Stringer/File Photo
The COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted lives the world over for more than a year. Its death toll will soon reach three million people. Yet the origin of pandemic remains uncertain: the political agendas of governments and scientists have generated thick clouds of obfuscation, which the mainstream press seems helpless to dispel.
In what follows I will sort through the available scientific facts, which hold many clues as to what happened, and provide readers with the evidence to make their own judgments. I will then try to assess the complex issue of blame, which starts with, but extends far beyond, the government of China.
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NEW YORK, NY (May 10, 2021) Scientists have discovered that many esophageal cancers turn on ancient viral DNA that was embedded in our genome hundreds of millions of years ago. It was surprising, says Adam Bass, MD, the Herbert and Florence Irving Professor of Medicine at Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons and Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center, who led the study published May 10 in
Nature Genetics. We weren t specifically searching for the viral elements, but the finding opens up a huge new array of potential cancer targets that I think will be extremely exciting as ways to enhance immunotherapy.
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