David Phillip Vetter, the "Bubble Boy," left a deep mark on a world he ... of severe combined immunodeficiency (SCID), the disease that kept him in the bubble. In 1976 ABC televised a John ...

Doctors determine that the boy has severe combined immunodeficiency ... the baby is placed in a plastic isolator bubble that will protect him from disease. October: Doctors inform the Vetters ...

The finding marks a milestone in the long effort to use gene therapy for the devastating condition, also known as bubble boy disease, which requires untreated patients to be isolated in order to ...

There's now a cure for the deadly genetic disorder known as 'bubble-boy' disease Babies who are born with X-linked severe combined immunodeficiency (XSCID) don't have disease-fighting immune cells.

A University of Alberta music professor has turned an Edmonton boy's rare "bubble boy" disease into song. The inspiration and melody comes from Jakob Guziak's DNA and his mother's lyrics and it's ...

$11.9 million grant to St. Jude Children's Research Hospital and collaborators to deliver gene therapy to patients with X-linked severe combined immunodeficiency disease (X-linked SCID), also known as ...

Orchard Therapeutics' Strimvelis for the vanishingly rare "bubble boy" disease adenosine deaminase deficiency (ADA-SCID) – originally developed by GlaxoSmithKline – reached the market in 2016 ...

Medical researchers Ewelina Mamcarz and Stephen Gottschalk detail the science behind the gene therapy they invented to help children with “bubble boy disease,” or severe combined immunodeficiency.

and the combined immunodeficiency known as “bubble boy disease”. Previously disclosed gene-editing projects target sickle-cell disease, Duchenne muscular dystrophy and the rare blood disorder ...