Boy with JEB shows distinct skin bacteria 6 years post-transplant

Boy with JEB shows distinct skin bacteria 6 years post-transplant

A boy with junctional epidermolysis bullosa (JEB) given combined gene and stem cell treatment in 2015 was found six years later to have a distinctive bacterial population in healthy, blistered, and transplanted portions of his skin, according to a new study from researchers in Germany. Compared with healthy controls, the boy’s skin microbiome — the collection of microscopic organisms that live on the skin’s surface — was out of balance. High lev…