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First gene therapy recipient

First gene therapy recipient
Who
Ashanti DeSilva
What
First
Where
United States
When
September 1990
The first attempt to fix a genetic disorder in a human being was made in September 1990. 4 year old Ashanti DeSilva (USA), suffering from a deficiency of adenosine deaminase (ADA), had been chronically ill for her whole life with the weak immune system caused by her condition. Her pioneering doctors gave her healthy copies of the gene that produces ADA by placing the gene in a modified virus that was then allowed to infect her blood cells. Ashanti has lived a healthy life ever since.