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https://www.cnn.com/2019/04/17/health/bubble-boy-disease-cure-study/index.html

by Jacqueline Howard
April 18, 2019

A team led by researchers at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital in Memphis developed an experimental gene therapy that involves harvesting bone marrow stem cells from a child with SCID-X1, inserting the normal gene that is missing in these patients into those cells, and then infusing them back into the child so the cells repopulate and restore the immune system.

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