1.   Scientists have successfully treated the disease using gene therapy.

2.   The scientists are cautious about using enzyme therapy on humans.

3.   Massage therapy can be used as an adjunct along with the medication.

4.   Such cases are currently treated using laser therapy.

5.   Already, Janet Larson from the Ochsner Medical Foundation in New Orleans and her colleagues have used gene therapy on unborn mice carrying the genes for cystic fibrosis.

6.   Although Hickstein originally cloned the missing gene for LAD, it was Bauer who spent the past seven years developing the protocol using gene therapy to treat the disease.

7.   And in a more preliminary but likewise promising study, researchers at Massachusetts General Hospital are reporting Tuesday that they have used gene therapy to revive failing heart cells.

8.   And the field got a big ego boost this spring when French scientists reported they had used gene therapy successfully to treat babies born with defective immune systems.

9.   Avigen, a biotechnology company in Alameda, Calif., has reported good results using gene therapy to treat a form of hemophilia.