Bubble Babies and California Cures: Long-Awaited Good News for One Child and Not-So-Good News on More Funding

Five-month hold on clinical award applications at CIRM

Mar 01, 2024

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Jakob is scheduled for a treatment for ADA-SCID at UCLA in May. Photo by Baby Bee Photography

The long-running tale about a cure for the life-threatening bubble baby disease entered a new chapter this month courtesy of California’s stem cell agency.

It was 2020 when the successful therapy was abandoned by the British company that held the exclusive licen…

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