Medical progress in Israel. Doctors at the Schneider Paediatric Medical Center have achieved a worldwide milestone in medicine; injecting a healthy gene directly into the brain of an 8-month-old baby with a serious genetic disease. The child had a WWOX gene deficiency, which is usually responsible for preventing severe epilepsy, severe developmental delay, and brain degeneration. This development was achieved thanks to collaboration between the …
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Medical progress in Israel. Doctors at the Schneider Paediatric Medical Center have achieved a worldwide milestone in medicine; injecting a healthy gene directly into the brain of an 8-month-old baby with a serious genetic disease. The child had a WWOX gene deficiency, which is usually responsible for preventing severe epilepsy, severe developmental delay, and brain degeneration. This development was achieved thanks to collaboration between the …