The AIDS virus, transformed and inactivated, was used as a "Trojan horse" by the team of Professor Patrick Aubourg. With gene therapy, doctors have managed to halt the progression, usually inevitable, of adrenoleukodystrophy in two children treated there are now more two and a half years.

Professor Patrick Aubourg, director of a research unit at Inserm and physician at the Hospital Saint Vincent de Paul in Paris in the service of Professor Pierre Bougnères, has devoted much of his life a rare genetic disease, adrenoleukodystrophy He may now have every reason to be happy. And with it, the families affected by this serious disease of the brain that can rapidly transform young children, apparently healthy, bedridden.

He comes into effect, with Dr. Nathalie Cartier-Lacave working with him to the unit 745 of INSERM and many other collaborators, obtaining very encouraging results for three sick children successfully treated by gene therapy transferring their normal gene they lacked.

Today, the prestigious U.S. journal Science publishes Precise details of the results for the first two patients so treated. His work will lead to healing for all children affected by this terrible disease, if they are paid early. In addition, other diseases could benefit from this therapy original use as a support nothing less than the AIDS virus completely disabled. Of course, to avert the fate, Patrick Aubourg estimates it will take even more distance, much longer follow these children to ensure they will not have long-term complications But it is a start to win against the adversity he has won with his team and those who trusted him.

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