{"id":212911,"date":"2025-04-30T21:04:53","date_gmt":"2025-05-01T02:04:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/04\/boy-with-death-sentence-disease-living-a-normal-life-after-breakthrough-gene-therapy"},"modified":"2025-04-30T21:04:53","modified_gmt":"2025-05-01T02:04:53","slug":"boy-with-death-sentence-disease-living-a-normal-life-after-breakthrough-gene-therapy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/04\/boy-with-death-sentence-disease-living-a-normal-life-after-breakthrough-gene-therapy","title":{"rendered":"Boy with \u2018death sentence\u2019 disease living a normal life after breakthrough gene therapy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/boy-with-death-sentence-disease-living-a-normal-life-after-breakthrough-gene-therapy.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A four-year-old boy with a life-threatening immune <a href=\"https:\/\/www.the-independent.com\/topic\/disease\" rel=\"nofollow\"> disease<\/a> is now living a normal life thanks to a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.the-independent.com\/life-style\/health-and-families\/wedding-eye-infection-test-condition-genomics-b2741660.html\" rel=\"nofollow\"> pioneering<\/a> gene therapy trial.<\/p>\n<p>Eisa Hussain, who suffers from a severe form of leukocyte adhesion deficiency 1 (LAD-1), can now play football and attend school \u2013 milestones his family once thought impossible.<\/p>\n<p>LAD-1 cripples the immune system, leaving <a href=\"https:\/\/www.the-independent.com\/topic\/children\" rel=\"nofollow\"> children<\/a> vulnerable to infections. Without treatment, the most severe cases are often fatal before the age of two.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A four-year-old boy with a life-threatening immune disease is now living a normal life thanks to a pioneering gene therapy trial. Eisa Hussain, who suffers from a severe form of leukocyte adhesion deficiency 1 (LAD-1), can now play football and attend school \u2013 milestones his family once thought impossible. LAD-1 cripples the immune system, leaving [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":511,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1522],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-212911","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-innovation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212911","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/511"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=212911"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212911\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=212911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=212911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=212911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}