The Controversial Gene Therapy for Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy
As medicine uses more and more complex tools to treat illness, I worry that these newer interventions will be seen as impenetrable black boxes. A pill is easy to understand, but gene therapy? There is a simple story to tell about gene therapy. Your body has a defective gene. Doctors will give you the correct version of the gene and the disease will go away. It’s like being unhappy with your wall…