STAT+: Pennsylvania Dutch country, tired of waiting for biopharma, builds drug company of its own

A Mennonite community in Pennsylvania, tired of waiting for biopharma, built its own drug company to develop a one-time gene therapy for bovine maple syrup urine disease (MSUD). Researchers treated a cow named Petunia, now 5 years old and weighing 1,500 pounds, with a virus carrying new genes; no patient has yet received the therapy, not even in a clinical trial.