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STAT+: Five years after disaster, a rare disease community gets new chance at treatment

Some boys had astonishing recoveries. But other boys died. Now Astellas is returning to revised gene therapy for XLMTM.

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According to STAT’s source item, STAT+: Five years after disaster, a rare disease community gets new chance at treatment, Some boys had astonishing recoveries. But other boys died. Now Astellas is returning to revised gene therapy for XLMTM.

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