Unit 1: Brave New World (1ère AMC_gr1)

 Gene Therapy

The document under study is an extract of an interview of a scientist who used a new way to cure one of his patient. His name is French Anderson, an American doctor. He pioneered gene therapy to cure people who have gene diseases. His first patient was Ashi DaSilva who was 4 years old at the time. In fact, since her birth, Ashi has never left her house except for going to the doctor or to the hospital. She was kept in quarantine to protect her from viruses. Indeed, her immune system was weak, she suffered from ADA deficiency because of a faulty gene. In order to be cured, she was treated with gene therapy which, consisted in taking her blood to inject white blood cells from a healthy donor in a lab. Then, it would be reinjected in Ashi’s bloodstream. 6 months later, Ashi was completely healed, indeed when all her family members were sick with the flu, she was the only one who recovered fast.

Homework: Learn the lesson.