• haemophilia
• genetics

In August 2016, Lucina featured two new treatments likely to be highly effective in treating haemophilia (doi101136/archdischild-2016-31162). Now here’s another, even more radical, which promises to actually correct the genetic defect. The X-linked haemophilia gene, which spread to all the royal houses of Europe in the early 20^th century by virtue of Queen Victoria’s fecundity, affected the heir to the Russian throne and was arguably responsible for the 1917 Russian revolution.

A successful gene therapy study involving patients with haemophilia …