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A gene-editing researcher told Caixin that in Mei's treatment, correcting the disease-causing gene is not the difficult part, but delivery is. Photo: VCG
The death of a six-year-old patient in an investigator-initiated study highlights systemic vulnerabilities in ethics reviews, animal-testing protocols and the financing of rare-disease treatments
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A gene-editing researcher told Caixin that in Mei's treatment, correcting the disease-causing gene is not the difficult part, but delivery is. Photo: VCG

Death of youngster following experimental gene therapy only made public after journalists investigated

A Chinese university is looking into reports that a gene-editing trial caused the death of a six-year-old girl, which was not…

The experimental gene therapy was meant to fix a rare genetic condition that caused a delay in cognitive development.

BEIJING, July 26 — A Chinese university is looking into reports that a gene-editing trial caused the death of a six-year-old…

A six-year-old Chinese girl died last year after receiving an experimental gene-therapy to correct a non-life-threatening…

A 6-year-old girl who received an experimental gene editing treatment died seven days into a clinical trial in Shanghai...