The U.S. Food and Drug Administration recently approved a gene therapy known as Zolgensma for spinal muscle atrophy, the most common inherited fatal disease in infants.
The treatment, which is based on a decade of work by a team under the leadership of James Wilson, director of the University of Pennsylvania’s Gene Therapy Program and Orphan Disease Center, and a professor of medicine and pediatrics in the Perelman School of Medicine, corrects a gene mutation that eventually impedes a young child’s ability to walk, eat, and breathe.
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