Bubble Boy Disease

• U of A professor turns genetic marker for ‘bubble boy disease’ into music

  A University of Alberta music professor has turned Edmonton boy Jakob Guziak's rare 'bubble boy disease' into a music using a process called sonification.

  Science

  Feb 15, 2025
  
• Edmonton ‘Bubble Boy’ headed to California for life-changing stem cell treatment

  An Edmonton boy could have the chance to live a normal life when he receives a stem-cell treatment as a part of a medical trial in the U.S.

  Canada

  Apr 8, 2024
  
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• Edmonton toddler and mom dealing with serious diagnosis

  An Edmonton family is dealing with two difficult diagnoses.

  Canada

  Dec 26, 2020
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• Alberta baby ‘Mighty Hudson’ home after gene therapy: ‘he’s cured’

  Hudson Cowie was diagnosed with Severe Combined Immunodeficiency within days of his birth. Now, he's back home after a successful experimental gene therapy procedure in Memphis.

  Canada

  Jan 20, 2020
• HIV-type virus used to possibly cure 10 infants of ‘bubble boy disease’

  Researchers used a modified HIV-like virus to help restore the babies' immune systems.

  Health

  Apr 18, 2019
• The lifesaving newborn test most Canadian babies will never get

  Beginning this week, all newborn babies born in PEI, Nova Scotia and New Brunswick will be screened for Severe Combined Immune Deficiency (SCID). But for most of the country, newborn SCID screening is not available.

  Canada

  Mar 24, 2016