She can be reached by email. Updated | A 7-year-old boy with a rare and fatal skin condition that causes gruesome blisters has been given a treatment that is nothing short of a medical breakthrough.

LONDON — Doctors treating a critically ill boy with a devastating skin disease used experimental gene therapy to create an entirely new skin for most of his body in a desperate attempt to save ...

UK boy Rhys Williams -- whose skin is so fragile the slightest cut could prove fatal -- is about to turn 16, shattering doctors' predictions that he wouldn't live a decade. Tanya Williams / SWNS A ...

In a significant advance in organ regeneration and gene therapy, researchers created a new, healthy skin that covers almost the entire body of a 7-year-old boy with a life-threatening genetic ...

In a last-ditch effort to save a dying 7-year-old boy, scientists have used stem cells and gene therapy to replace about 80 percent of his skin. This procedure’s success demonstrates that the ...

The research, published in the journal Nature, involved a 7-year-old boy who suffers from a genetic disease known as junctional epidermolysis bullosa (JEB) that makes skin so fragile that minor ...

LAS VEGAS (KVVU/CNN/CNN Newsource/WKRC) - A boy with a rare skin condition can't close his eyes. Carter is a seven-year-old boy who was born with two rare skin conditions: Lamellar ichthyosis and ...

The parents of a 12-year-old Colorado boy with stiff skin syndrome, a rare condition causing him to “become entombed within himself,” are fighting to find a cure. Jaiden Rogers, of Alamosa ...

A seven year old boy with a rare genetic disease called junctional epidermolysis bullosa received the most extensive skin transplant yet to treat his condition. The boy was born with a mutation in ...

Carter Blanchard, 8, and Rowdy the dog have a disorder called vitiligo. — -- An 8-year-old boy with a skin disorder that causes white patches on his skin was able to fly across the country to ...

LAS VEGAS (KVVU/Gray News) - We can sometimes take the little things for granted in life but for a little boy in Las Vegas ... dealing with a couple of rare skin conditions that he was born ...