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Originally posted by Rudey
I worked on gene therapy and sids patients one summer but that was before Bush so I wonder what happened to all the research there...did they scale back on a lot of gene therapy research??
-Rudey
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What happened in the Clinton years was James Wilson at the University of Penn did not check his materials before injecting a 16 year old that had a genetic disease with a "therapeutic gene"... The 16 year old was asymptomatic of the genetic disease, but he was beginning to show signs of dysfunctional metabolism and this disease progresses rapidly once the changes in metabolism are observed...
Anyhow, this kid, who really did not need gene therapy died. At first it was unclear why he died. But upon further investigation, the material that was used contained something that caused anaphylactic shock to the kid--this boy was allergic to a gene never shown to cause anything in humans... So much for SNP's...
Additionally, the boy's father was a lawyer... And the father sued James Wilson and his merry band of scientist for malpractice...
It took an act of Congress to "do" something about "gene therapy"... That is why I think the "stem cell" debate must occur so that folks do not get killed by trying to get treated... Full disclosure documents with waivers and nobody trying to make a buck like Dr. Wilson... And believe me, when I asked him a question 5 years before the boy's death, he was acting like he was trying to make a buck...