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Gene therapy might not have caused patient's death

Case was complicated by immunosuppressant drug regime

A patient with arthritis who died in July during a gene-therapy trial may have succumbed to an infection she had before the viral vector was administered, experts said on Monday at a meeting of an advisory panel in Bethesda, Maryland, investigating the incident.

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