bubble boy syndromeの例文

• A French child with a rare immune system disorder called bubble boy syndrome contracted leukemia-like symptoms as a result of his gene therapy recently.
• But he died soon after of a rare hereditary disease, severe combined immunodeficiency system, or SCID, also known as " bubble boy syndrome ."
• An international scientific team announced Thursday that two toddlers with so-called bubble boy syndrome were cured using gene therapy, the most effective reported application of the promising but controversy-plagued treatment to date.
• SCID is called the " bubble boy syndrome " because a Houston, Texas, boy who had the disease spent all 12 years of his life in a plastic bubble to protect him from infection.
• Only this spring, French scientists reported the first real success in gene therapy, an apparent cure of four boys with severe combined immunodeficiency, the formal name for the " Bubble Boy syndrome " that had forced them to live in a completely sterile environment.