People with a rare genetic condition that causes widespread skin blistering have been successfully treated with a gel that inserts new collagen genes into their skin.
in the US involving 31 children and adults with recessive dystrophic epidermolysis bullosa, including Mascoli.
Mascoli’s large back wound was treated with the gene therapy and it is now 95 per cent closed. “The gene therapy was very good for my back. Now, I can have a bath without it burning my skin,” he says. “I hope I will be able to use it on the rest of my body.”
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