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A family's fundraising for gene therapy research pays off

NPR | By Sydney Lupkin

Published October 22, 2026 at 4:55 PM EDT

After their daughter was diagnosed with a rare inherited disease in 2013, the O'Neill family raised money to find a treatment. The Food and Drug Administration recently approved a gene therapy.