Gene Therapy
Gene therapy is a new and largely experimental branch of medicine that uses genetic material (DNA) to treat patients. Researchers hope one day to use this therapy to treat several differe...
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Gene Therapy: Ethical Issues
Gene therapy introduces or alters genetic material to compensate for a genetic mistake that causes disease. It is hoped that gene therapy can treat or cure diseases for wh...
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Gene Therapy
Gene therapy is the name applied to the treatment of inherited diseases by corrective genetic engineering of the dysfunctional genes. It is part of a broader field called genetic medicine...
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Gene Therapy
A cell is regarded as the basic unit of life. Located in each cell is a set of 46 chromosomes, 23 of which we receive from the mother and 23 from the father at conception. These chromosom...
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Gene Targeting, Therapeutic Strategies
More than 2,000 inherited disorders are known today, with up 15% of newborn infants presenting some genetic disorder that may cause disease or impairment at some...
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Gene Therapy
Gene therapy is the name applied to the treatment of inherited diseases by corrective genetic engineering of the dysfunctional genes. It is part of a broader field called genetic medicine...
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Gene Therapy
Gene therapy is the use of genes engineered for treating disease. The first human gene therapy was approved for clinical trial in the United States in May 1989. Because this powerful tech...
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Gene Therapy
Gene therapy is the use of genes engineered for treating disease. The first human gene therapy was approved for clinical trial in the United States in May 1989. Because this powerful tech...
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Gene Therapy
Gene therapies (gene transfer technology) involve one or more experimental techniques for correcting or altering genes, including defective genes associated with physiological or psycholo...
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Alexandra Fyodorovna was czarina, or empress, of Russia, and the wealth and power of a huge country was hers to command. All she wanted, however, was to make her child well. Every time he had the slig...
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Gene therapy is based on the concept that genetic disorders and acquired diseases can be treated by replacing abnormal or absent genes or by modifying their functions. Inherited disorders such as cyst...
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Genetic engineering is an exciting new field with countless applications in science and medicine. Although many people are somewhat familiar with this idea of engineering, most do not have a good idea...
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Imagine if a person had their own clone that did all their work for them so that this person can sit back lazy and play video games all day. As much as this sounds great, there is a down side to it. T...
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W hat is Human Gene Therapy"
Human gene therapy is a technique currently being extensively trialed in an attempt to treat genetic and other diseases. Although the process of human gene therapy has l...
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"Human cloning will be done whether we like it or not, we should accept it, make it legal, regulate it and make sure it is done in a responsible, scientifically correct way."-Panayiotis Zavos (Hansen...
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