Materials Science Centre
Biomedical Materials Science: Tissue Engineering
Tissue Engineering
Gene Therapy and tissue engineering
Problems and limitations
1999, gene therapy suffered major setback
Death of 18-year-old Jesse Gelsinger
Multiple organ failures 4 days after starting the treatment
Believed to have been triggered by a severe immune response to the adenovirus carrier
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Dr J. Gough