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MEDLINEplus: Genes and Gene Therapy - Access news, information from the National Institutes of Health, clinical trials information, research, and more.
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Gene Therapy for X-linked SCID
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Many human diseases are caused by defective genes.
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Gene therapy is the insertion of genes into an individual's cells and tissues to treat a disease, and hereditary diseases in particular. Gene therapy typically aims to supplement a defective mutant allele with a functional one.
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Dr. Michael Blaese defines gene therapy.
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cDNA library, gene, genome, inherited, protein ...
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Gene therapy uses technology to change the genetic composition of a cell.
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Ex vivo methods are done outside the organism. Cells are removed, treated and returned to the individual.
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gene therapy The insertion of normal or genetically altered genes into cells through the use of recombinant DNA technology; usually done to replace defective genes as part of the treatment of genetic disorders.
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Gene therapy is a more ambitious endeavor: its goal is to treat or cure a disease by providing a normal copy of the individual's mutated gene.
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Gene therapy: a newly evolving technique used to treat inherited genetic diseases. The medical procedure involves substituting the defective gene in the cells of a patient's body with a healthy gene.
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Gene therapy: A technique involving the use of foreign genetic material to correct a genetic defect or to modify the phenotype of an affected individual, by targeting the somatic cells.
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Human gene therapy
Insertion of normal DNA directly into cells to correct a genetic defect.
Related Terms: Single-gene disorder ...
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Somatic cell gene therapy. The repair or replacement of a defective gene within somatic tissue. (See Somatic cell.)
Somatotrophin. See Human growth hormone.
Southern blotting. See Southern hybridization.
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Germ cell (germ line) gene therapy. The repair or re- placement of a defective gene within the gamete-forming tissues, which produces a heritable change in an organism's genetic constitution. GMO. Genetically modified organism. Green revolution.
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Gene therapy -- addition of a functional gene or group of genes to a cell by gene insertion to correct an hereditary disease.
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their genetic material into the host cell's nucleus, they are attractive tools for introducing new genes into the host (known as transformation or transfection), and this approach of using viruses as gene vectors is being pursued in the gene therapy ...
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Incorporation of new DNA into and organism's cells, usually by a vector such as a modified virus. Used in gene therapy.
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