Gene Therapy

Gene therapy is the introduction of genetic material into cells for therapeutic purposes. Recent scientific breakthroughs in the genomics field and our understanding of the important role of genes in disease has made gene therapy one of the most rapidly advancing fields of biotechnology with great promise for treating inherited and acquired diseases. Many human diseases are caused by the absence or inappropriate presence of a protein. Biotechnology's first promise was to isolate and produce …

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