Gene therapy is a technique throughwhich genes are added or replaced to treat or prevent disease.<\/p>\n
Our genes, which hold the code for all of our body's functions, aremade of DNA. Damage to DNA, such as a mutation, is an underlying cause of thegenetic defects that lead to cancers, blood disorders, and other conditions.Gene therapy delivers DNA into a patients cells to replace faulty or missinggenes or add new genes in an attempt to cure cancer or make changes so thebody is better able to fight off disease.<\/p>\n
Scientists are investigating a number of different ways to do this:<\/p>\n
How does gene therapy deliver new genes into cells?<\/p>\n
With gene therapy, the DNA for the new or corrected gene or genes iscarried into a patients cells by a delivery vehicle called a vector, typicallya specially engineered virus. The vector then inserts the gene(s) into thecells' DNA.<\/p>\n
For patients, the process for delivering genes to cells is fairlysimple.<\/p>\n
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