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Scientists investigate gene-therapy death

Indirect side effects of therapeutic trials may have led to organ failure.

Scientists in Germany are trying to establish what exactly caused the death of a 28-year-old patient participating in a gene-therapy trial based in Frankfurt.

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Posted by Helen Pearson on April 28, 2006 06:09 PM |

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