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doctors and patients have pinned their hopes on this knowledge being transmuted into readily available medical procedures |
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advances in gene therapy are expected to be announced by research teams in Japan and Argentina in the near future |
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all gene therapy rests on the idea that the patient's genes can be manipulated in such a way that the organism fixes itself |
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various other therapies, such as bone-marrow transplants, have proved inadequate in making headway against the rare disorder of severe combined immuno-deficiency |
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no clinical trial expects to get ultimate approval in the near future by health authorities in the US and Europe |