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SCID

American

Pathology.

severe combined immune deficiency.

SCID British

abbreviation

severe combined immune deficiency; a serious condition in which babies are born with reduced numbers of T- and B-lymphocytes, which impairs their immune systems and makes them susceptible to severe infections and cancer

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Fortunately, in San Francisco, researchers were testing a gene therapy for Artemis-deficient SCID.

From Science Magazine • Sep. 22, 2021

But a cure for the most common form – X-linked SCID, which is only found in boys – had remained elusive until now.

From Washington Post • Apr. 17, 2019

An earlier attempt to use gene therapy to treat severe combined immunodeficiency disease, or SCID, was halted in 2003 after researchers realized the therapy was giving the children cancer.

From Washington Post • Apr. 17, 2019

The test results showed that neither fetus was producing ADA and that the babies would have SCID.

From Time Magazine Archive

I don’t believe you have, or have ever had, SCID.

From "Everything, Everything" by Nicola Yoon

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