The forever fix
Subtitle: gene therapy and the boy who saved it
By: Ricki Lewis
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780312681906; 9781429941471
Subjects: Gene therapy; SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Biological Diversity; Popular works; SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Genetics & Genomics
Description: "Eight-year-old Corey Haas was nearly blind from a hereditary disorder when his sight was restored through a delicate procedure that made medical history. Like something from a science fiction novel, doctors carefully injected viruses bearing healing genes into the DNA of Corey's eyes--a few days later, Corey could see, his sight restored by gene therapy. THE FOREVER FIX is the first book to tell the fascinating story of gene therapy: how it works, the science behind it, how patients (mostly children) have been helped and harmed, and how scientists learned from each trial to get one step closer to its immense promise, the promise of a "forever fix," - a cure that, by fixing problems at their genetic root, does not need further surgery or medication. Told through the voices of the children and families who have been the inspiration, experimental subjects, and successes of genetic science, THE FOREVER FIX is compelling and engaging narrative science that tells explores the future of medicine as well as the families and scientists who are breaking new ground every day"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.