Gene Therapy Cancers Prompt Design of Safer Virus

Eric wu submitted, created time 10 months 3 weeks (sciencenow.sciencemag.org)

The announcement last month that a fifth child who received gene therapy for an immune system disease has developed leukemia was the latest blow to the field of gene therapy. But there's new hope: The U.K. team running the trial reports this week that a safer formulation of the treatment can cure the disease in mice and should also work in people.
This may be a new angle to prove security of gene therapy......

Keywords: Gene Therapy gene delivery leukemia viruses