Orchard and Bubble Baby Cure: Restart of Life-Saving Clinical Trial Not on Near Horizon

In past years, a few patients with a variant of SCID were treated by encasing them in plastic bubbles to isolate them from germs. Thus the term bubble baby disease. Baylor College of Medicine photo

A California-financed clinical trial that involves a life-saving genetic treatment for the bubble baby disease appears to be a long way from being delivered t…