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Moving gene therapy into high gear

A healthy copy of the affected gene is introduced into the patient's stem cells by means of a vector, a genetically altered virus that does not cause ongoing infection. The stem cells, corrected for...

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Stem cells offer answers about a devastating brain infection—and a new view...

Why do some children develop severe encephalitis from herpes simplex virus 1, a virus that's usually innocuous? (Fred Murphy/CDC/Wikimedia Commons) Herpes simplex virus-1 (HSV-1) is one of those...

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Advances in SCID (“bubble boy” disease): A Q&A with a child...

Sung-Yun Pai, MD, a pediatric hematologist/oncologist at Dana-Farber/Boston Children’s Cancer and Blood Disorders Center, was lead author on two recent articles on severe combined immune deficiency...

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