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POZ - POZ Magazine - POZ.com - News : HIV Used in Gene Therapy for Lorenzo’s Oil Disease

Researchers have successfully used gene therapy to halt the progression of fatal degenerative disease adrenoleukodystrophy (ALD)?the illness at the center of the film Lorenzo?s Oil, the Los Angeles Times reports. The breakthrough therapy?highlighted in the November 6 issue of Science?used a harmless version of HIV as a delivery system to stabilize ALD in two boys, who were 7 at the time of treatment.

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