Evangelina's Excellent Decade: An Update on a Case of the Bubble Baby Disease and a Gene Therapy
California backed the work with about $40 million
Evangelina’s story is one of joy. But when she was born 10 years ago, it was a much different matter.
Six weeks after her birth on Aug. 28, 2012, she was diagnosed with the “bubble baby” disease, a rare genetic immune deficiency (ADA-SCID) that threatened her life. Her twin sister, Annabella, was not afflicted.
As the gi…
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