What gene therapy means for hemophilia patients

Given every little thing he’s been by way of, Bobby Wiseman says he ought to have been lifeless as an alternative of celebrating the beginning of his first grandchild a number of days in the past.

Wiseman, 51, who lives close to Sacramento, was recognized as an toddler with hemophilia, the uncommon genetic illness that forestalls blood from clotting. He examined constructive for HIV and hepatitis C when he was 11 after catching the viruses from contaminated blood-clotting merchandise. As a teen, he spent 45 days hospitalized in a coma from huge gastrointestinal bleeding.