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No Special Rules Needed for Now-Common Gene Therapy Studies

U.S. health officials are eliminating special regulations for gene therapy experiments. They say that what was once exotic science is quickly becoming an established form of medical care with no extraordinary risks. Gene therapy aims to get at the root cause of a disease by altering DNA rather than just treating symptoms of a genetic illness. When it began decades ago, an oversight panel at the National Institutes of Health reviewed every proposal to evaluate risks to patients. Now...


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