An FDA panel has recommended approval of the first gene therapy drug.

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4. The therapy on which I'm playing a supporting role is a disease that kills kids within two years.

As the parent of a kid born with a somatic mutation resulting from a clipped nitrogen on a nucleotide, I have some feeling for what the parents must be going through, although my kid's mutation was not going to prove even remotely deadly.

The researchers on this project I'm supporting have some flared tempers too; everybody really wants to get it done.

My clients have a very interesting vehicle, a designed vehicle, very cool.

I really can't talk too much about it, but while GMOing humans is going to make for a lot of noise, some of which will be invariably stupid, I'm proud to be around these kinds of things.