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Jocelyn Kaiser
After learning more about the leukemias in two patients in a French gene-therapy trial, a U.S. review panel this week suggested that although it makes sense to keep this trial on hold, others might be allowed to resume. The panel also learned that a third patient in the French trial has a gene insertion like the one in the two who developed leukemia--although this child does not have leukemia.
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