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  2. Gene therapy - Mayo Clinic

    www.mayoclinic.org/tests-procedures/gene-therapy/about/pac-20384619

    Gene therapy aims to fix a faulty gene or replace it with a healthy gene to try to cure disease or make the body better able to fight disease. It holds promise as a treatment for a wide range of diseases, such as cancer, cystic fibrosis, heart disease, diabetes, hemophilia and AIDS.

  3. Gene therapy - Wikipedia

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    Gene therapy is a medical technology that aims to produce a therapeutic effect through the manipulation of gene expression or through altering the biological properties of living cells. [ 1 ][ 2 ][ 3 ]

  4. What is Gene Therapy? | FDA - U.S. Food and Drug Administration

    www.fda.gov/vaccines-blood-biologics/cellular-gene-therapy-products/what-gene...

    Gene therapy is a technique that modifies a persons genes to treat or cure disease. Gene therapies can work by several mechanisms: Replacing a disease-causing gene with a...

  5. At the forefront of medicine, Gene Therapy brings you the latest research into genetic and cell-based technologies to treat disease. It also publishes reviews and articles, which highlight the...

  6. Gene Therapy Definition, Pros & Cons - Cleveland Clinic

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    Gene therapy is an innovative approach to medicine that uses genetic material to prevent, treat and potentially even cure disease. In gene therapy, genetic material is delivered to your cells and changes how your cells produce proteins.

  7. Gene therapy | Description, Uses, Examples, & Safety Issues

    www.britannica.com/science/gene-therapy

    Gene therapy, introduction of a normal gene into an individuals genome in order to repair a mutation that causes a genetic disease. Human gene therapy has been attempted on somatic (body) cells for diseases such as cystic fibrosis and cancer.

  8. What Is Gene Therapy: Risks, Benefits, and More - Verywell Health

    www.verywellhealth.com/gene-therapy-5214362

    Gene therapy is a relatively new treatment designed to alleviate disease by modifying defective genes or altering the production of proteins by faulty genes. There are several ways that healthy genes can be inserted into the body, such as inside a deactivated virus or inside a fat particle.

  9. Gene Therapy - National Human Genome Research Institute

    www.genome.gov/genetics-glossary/Gene-Therapy

    Gene therapy is a technique that uses a gene (s) to treat, prevent or cure a disease or medical disorder. Often, gene therapy works by adding new copies of a gene that is broken, or by replacing a defective or missing gene in a patient’s cells with a healthy version of that gene.

  10. What is gene therapy? - MedlinePlus

    medlineplus.gov/genetics/understanding/therapy/genetherapy

    Gene therapy is a medical approach that treats or prevents disease by correcting the underlying genetic problem instead of using drugs or surgery.

  11. Gene therapy: advances, challenges and perspectives - PMC

    www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5823056

    Gene therapy is understood as the capacity for gene improvement by means of the correction of altered (mutated) genes or site-specific modifications that have therapeutic treatment as target.