Word: hemophilia
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DIED. KENNETH BRINKHOUS, 92, University of North Carolina medical researcher who developed the first effective treatment for hemophilia; in Chapel Hill, N.C. Brinkhous' early research showed that some hemophiliacs could not produce a bloodclotting protein that was later dubbed Factor VIII. One of his seminal discoveries was a way to use blood plasma to aid in replacing the missing protein...
...This may be a] safe and very effective treatment" for hemophilia, White said...
...These are the first positive results from a trial of gene therapy for hemophilia A," Roth said, according to The Boston Globe...
Although there are viral methods of gene therapy completely unlike the kind used on Gelsinger, and each method has its own benefits, the non-viral technique used in the study has several advantages, said Gilbert C. White II, the director of University of North Carolina- Chapel Hill's Hemophilia Diagnostic and Treatment Center...
White said Roth's findings are important in both the fields of hemophilia and gene therapy research...