Nicknamed "Bubble Boy", Vetter was born in 1971 with the disease and died at the age of 12 after a failed bone marrow transplant. Getty Images Within 20 seconds of his birth at the Texas Children ...

For babies born with the severe genetic condition known as "bubble boy" disease, a run-of-the-mill common cold can be deadly. Born without crucial disease-fighting immune cells, they must be kept ...

Bubble Boy disease, known in the medical fraternity as SCID-X1, is usually treated with bone marrow transplant from a sibling. However, a sibling match is tough to find. So, a recently developed ...

David Phillip Vetter, the "Bubble Boy," left a deep mark on a world he ... of severe combined immunodeficiency (SCID), the disease that kept him in the bubble. In 1976 ABC televised a John ...

Doctors determine that the boy has severe combined immunodeficiency ... the baby is placed in a plastic isolator bubble that will protect him from disease. October: Doctors inform the Vetters ...

Medical researchers Ewelina Mamcarz and Stephen Gottschalk detail the science behind the gene therapy they invented to help children with “bubble boy disease,” or severe combined immunodeficiency.

also known as ‘bubble boy disease’ The UK biotech acquired Strimvelis from GlaxoSmithKline earlier this year, along with a pipeline of other gene therapies. It already raised $150 million from ...

Bubble boy disease - an immune disorder formally called severe combined immunodeficiency, or SCID - is the only disease ever to be cured with gene therapy. The FDA and the U.S. Office for Human ...

There are more than 150 PI diseases, ranging in severity from chronic sinusitis to severe combined immune deficiency (SCID), commonly known as “bubble boy disease.” There are more than 150 PI ...