The news that a child in a gene-therapy trial has developed cancer has cast a cloud over the technique. But this has more to do with the field's chequered history than the particular circumstances of this tragic case.
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The trials of gene therapy. Nature 420, 107 (2002). https://doi.org/10.1038/420107a
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