Health & biology · 1990

Gene therapy

Four-year-old Ashanti DeSilva received her own cells carrying a working ADA gene.

The 1990 NIH trial for ADA immune deficiency was the first approved human gene therapy. After a 1999 death and leukaemia cases, safer vectors emerged and the field reached approvals in the 2010s.

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