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daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jean-Francois Avon)
Fri Sep 3 10:58:20 1999
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From: "Jean-Francois Avon" <jf_avon@citenet.net>
To: "Cypherpunks" <cypherpunks@toad.com>
Date: Fri, 03 Sep 1999 10:29:59 -0400
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*** Man receives gene therapy injection
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) - A 36-year-old traffic controller from South
Dakota received a gene therapy injection for muscular dystrophy
Thursday, the first to receive the injection. Dr. Jerry Mendell,
chairman of the Department of Neurology at the Ohio State University
Medical Center, injected Donavon Decker's foot with genes for a
muscle protein missing because of a genetic flaw. Decker suffers from
limb-girdle muscular dystrophy, a disease he has had for more than 20
years. Decker is the first of an expected six participants to receive
the injection in the MDA-funded trial. Gene therapy is the insertion
of a working gene to compensate for genetic flaws like those that
lead to muscular dystrophy, a progressive muscle that causes muscle
weakness. It is often fatal. See
http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2560987149-7fc
