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New gene therapy is a watershed moment

2 June 2021

Professor Simon Waddington (UCL Institute for Women’s Health) discusses game-changing treatment, Zolgensma, after a five month old boy was given the medicine to treat Spinal Muscular Atrophy (SMA). If left untreated, those with the condition rarely live beyond two.

Listen: BBC 2 Radio ‘2pm News(from 1 min 3 secs).