Doctors have treated a girl with deadly genetic disease before she was even born, in a world-first.Ayla Bashir, a 16-month-old from Ontario, was given an enzyme therapy that was injected into her mother's stomach and traveled to the fetus via the umbilical cord.Little Ayla has infantile Pompe disease, a rare condition caused by a mutation in a gene which makes an enzyme responsible for keeping cells healthy.
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