New gene therapy halts 2 boys’ rare brain disease

LAURAN NEERGAARD writes:
French scientists mixed gene ther apy

and bone marrow transplants in two boys to seemingly halt a brain disease that can kill by adolescence.

The surprise ingredient: They disabled the HIV virus so it couldn’ t cause AIDS, and

then used it to carry in the healthy new gene.

Read article.

I’m reminded again that, if we look hard enough, we can turn what appears bad, like the HIV virus, to good.

This is such an important lesson for us all that it deserves emphasizing again and

again.