Ill. woman's death in drug study probed

Familiar with all the talk about "fixing" your genetics so you won't be fat?

Just like:

"...18-year-old Jesse Gelsinger, who died in 1999 in his fourth day of agene therapy experiment at the University of Pennsylvania. Gelsinger had suffered from an inherited disorder that blocks the body from properly processing nitrogen. The Food and Drug Administration concluded that the gene therapy injection intended to try to cure him instead killed him."

Here is more of what you can expect.

" A woman whose death in a gene therapy study shut it down and prompted a review of the safety of 28 other studies was experiencing multiple organ failure when she got to the hospital, a spokesman said.

Jolee Mohr, 36, died July 24, 22 days after receiving her second injection of an experimental drug made of genetically engineered viruses she hoped would help her arthritis.

Robb Mohr said he believes his wife thought the drug would help her, even though the research was to determine the drug's safety, rather than its effectiveness. The University of Chicago Medical Center, where Jolee Mohr died, is investigating the cause of death.

'By the time she got to us, she was in liver failure and kidney failure, she was on a ventilator and she was septic' or responding to severe infection, hospital spokesman John Easton told The Associated Press."

Bon appetit.