Gene therapy is an experimental technique that uses genes to treat or prevent disease. In the future, this technique may allow doctors to treat a disorder by inserting a gene into a patient's
cells instead of using
drugs or surgery. Gene therapy is a medical field that focuses on the utilization of the therapeutic delivery of
nucleic acids into a patient's
cells as a drug to treat disease Gene therapy is designed to introduce genetic material into
cells to compensate for abnormal genes or to make a beneficial protein. Alternately, a sample of the patient's
cells can be removed and exposed to the
vector in a laboratory setting. The
cells containing the
vector are then returned to the patient.
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