You also don't need to go back very far in history to see how white patriarchal empires dominated/shaped most (all?) of these regions and countries for centuries.
This paper seems to have more details on the actual procedure
Patients were treated and monitored according to the schedule described in the appendix (p 17) and as previously reported.16, 17 HSPCs harvested from bone marrow or mobilised peripheral blood (MPB) were transduced with clinical-grade lentiviral vector encoding human ARSA cDNA under the control of the human phosphoglycerate kinase gene promoter.