Beating Severe Combined Immunodeficiency Syndrome (SCID)

Please imagine that your whole life is contained in a plastic form. The connection from the outside world including parents is fatal. The coldness of laboratory gloves makes you impossible to fall asleep, not feeling a warm feel. This is alive or survive. You call. SCID is an acronym for severe joint immunodeficiency syndrome. People with SCID lack the ability to fight infection. SCID makes the cold as fatal as pneumonia.

Severe combined immunodeficiency disease (SCID) is also known as "foamy boys' disease" in boys in Texas with SCID who live in sterile plastic foam. SCID is a serious immune system disorder that occurs due to the lack of B and T lymphocytes, and it is almost impossible to fight infection. HIV (Human Immunodeficiency Virus) Infection / AIDS (Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome) is a disease that slowly and steadily destroys the immune system. It is caused by HIV, which kills certain lymphocytes called helper T cells. Without helper T cells, the immune system can not protect the body from harmless organisms that may cause life-threatening AIDS. Newborns can obtain HIV from their mothers in utero while giving birth or breastfeeding.

Severe combined immunodeficiency disease (SCID). In case of hidden disease, homozygous type fatal, there are no signs of career (heterozygous type). As with the human "bubbleboy" situation, the affected pony is born with a complete lack of immune system, so it usually dies of opportunistic infection three months ago. Since there is a DNA test to detect healthy horses with SCID genes, a careful plan of testing and breeding can now eliminate the possibility of an affected pony being born.

As an early example of successful gene therapy, Katlyn Demerchent, born on Severe Combined Immunodeficiency (SCID), was introduced in the September 2009 issue of Journal of Discovery. This disease is often called "boy in the bubble" disease because children with this sick have little ability to protect themselves from infection due to lack of a useful immune system. Many children born with SCID are forced to live in virtual space suit to maintain a safe and sterile environment to protect themselves from external threats.