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New gene therapy is a watershed moment!

14 June 2021

Simon Waddington speaking on BBC news

Professor Simon Waddington (Dept. Maternal & Fetal Medicine) has been discussing 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.