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By Jason Mast
May 13, 2026
General Assignment Reporter
Jason Mast
Encoded Therapeutics gives a heads-up to other gene therapy company about the trade-offs with a drug meant to improve safety.
Camille MacMillan/STAT
By Jason Mast
May 13, 2026
General Assignment Reporter
Jason Mast

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Doctors have linked a boy's tumor to a gene therapy, but say the rare risks need to be weighed against the profound benefits such…