Is gene therapy safe or hazardous right now?

first Gene Therapy Clinical trial was in 1990 at the NIH Clinical Trial Center in the USA. On September 14, 1990 a four-year old girl became the first patient treated using gene therapy. read more

, 2011). In 2003 the FDA placed a temporary halt on all gene therapy trials using retroviral vectors in blood stem cells. read more

Gene therapy is under study to determine whether it could be used to treat disease. Current research is evaluating the safety of gene therapy; future studies will test whether it is an effective treatment option. read more