The Precision Medicine Institute's staff is working to prepare Children's Hospital to give new therapies for genetic conditions, which offer 'exciting' results
, though, and sometimes come with grueling side effects.
For example, some therapies use a harmless virus to deliver a healthy gene to someone with a life-threatening mutation, but there’s always a small possibility that the body will react badly to the virus. There’s no system to notify doctors about adverse events with gene therapy, so closely monitoring results from other hospitals will be part of the team’s job, he said.Demarest estimated 5,000 to 6,000 patients might be served by the Precision Medicine Institute in a typical year.
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