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Gene Therapy
Gene Therapy
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What is
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Gene
AdvantageS
Thearphy?
Gene therapy is a technique that modifies a and
person’s genes to treat or cure disorder. Gene
therapies can performance by different
mechanisms: Human gene therapy has been used; Disvantage
Replacing a disease-causing gene with a
healthy duplicate of the gene cystic fibrosis, adenosine deaminase
Inactivating a disorder-causing gene that is not ADVANTAGES
functioning rightly deficiency, familial
Introducing a newly or modified gene into the
hypercholesterolemia, cancer, and The medical impact of gene therapy
body to help treat a disorder can create permanent results.
severe combined immunodeficiency There are out-of-body treatment
(SCID) syndrome. options available.
DISAVANTAGES
Current gene therapy methods can
Importance For
sometimes target the wrong cells.
Gene therapies could cause a potential
Human
tumor.