 |
 |
 |
||
ASHANTI DESILVA The first successful case of Gene Therapy occurred in the 1990s on a young girl named Ashanti Desilva, a victim of the recessive metabolic disorder, ADA deficiency, which made her immune system weak and vulnerable to nearly every virus. She lacked ability to produce a key enzyme which would ultimately lead to her death at a young age. It was the goal of her doctors and gene therapists to design a way to replace her defective genes with healthy and thriving ones. |
||||
