Articles tagged: Gene therapy
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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 which a defective mutant allele is replaced with a functional one written by Alternative medicine is a recent term to something that has been a part of human existence from old. From the times of early man to the present day instinct and reason has taught humans many thing. written by David C Skul The genes, small pieces of DNA that contain encoded information about how to make proteins (they are some kind of 'blueprints' for the body) are the basic units of human heredity. When, for some reasons, something happens to the genes and they can't perform their normal functions, gene therapy is required. Gene therapy consists of several methods for 'repairing' the defective genes, curing the diseases that are caused by them. You can say that gene therapy 'cuts the evil from its seeds'.
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