STAT | Reporting from the frontiers of health and medicine Follow STAT+: In wake of boy’s death, gene editing experts dissect Huidagene’s decisions Experts question technical improvements Huidagene tried when using a Duchenne muscular dystrophy treatment strategy largely abandoned by U.S. companies. https://www.statnews.com/2026/08/19/huidagene-clinical-trial-deaths-experts-dissect-study-design/ statnews.com