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Gene therapy is considered as a risky business as it has a chance of promoting cancer if the inserted DNA placed in a wrong place (locus). Gene therapy is aimed to cure genetic diseases by inserting DNA or gene as a drug in the tissue or cells. Viral vectors are the vehicles used for this purpose.
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What is the name for replacement of a defective gene with a healthy one?
gene therapy
How gene therapy might be used to treat cytic fibrosis?
In cystic fibrosis there is an inherited gene that you have that is causing it, so if gene therapy is used, you can replace the gene with the effected one
What is one goal of gene therapy?
The goal of gene therapy is to cure a genetic disorder. Lets a gene is impaired by mutation and causing a disease. We can correct the gene by injecting DNA to the cells that have impaired gene. By this we can find out a permanent cure of that particular disease condition if it works properly.
What will be the likely benefits or risks involved in gene therapy?
no one knows and no one cares
How do gene splicing and gene therapy difffer?
Gene therapy usually seeks to replace a defective gene in a cell with the correct one using a vector for delivery, often a virus. The result is the transformed cells will product the correct protein. Protein therapy usually refers to injecting a functional protein into a patient to compensate for its absence.
Researchers hope to one day use gene therapy to?
Researchers hope that one day gene therapy can be used to cure epidemics like diabetes, cancer, obesity and a range of cardiac disorders D
Where does one go to get gene therapy?
Gene therapy is an experimental treatment in which genetic material is introduced into a person's cells to cure disease. Because it is still experimental it is being done at research hospitals.
Where can one find synthetic biology?
Synthetic biology combines biology and engineering. One example is inserting a gene from one animal into the DNA of a different animal. This is useful for gene therapy applications.
What is the main idea employed in gene therapy?
Gene therapy involves artificially transferring genes from one organism to another. Gene therapy has been suggested as a corrective therapy to correct medical conditions characterized by the deficiency of essential proteins (hormones, enzymes) in the body. What gene therapy essentially does is to supplement the genome of the patient with genes that will then code for the missing proteins, thus restoring balance and curing the medical condition. Although the approach seems fairly straight forward, researchers have encountered several obstacles (both scientific and ethical) along the way. Currently, gene therapy has taken a back seat with the advent of cell replacement therapy as an alternative cure for diseases like type 2 diabetes.
Is an an adjective?
No, it is an article (indefinite article), which is a form of "determiner" that determines if a noun is a specific example or any one of the examples. "An" obstacle = any obstacle "The" obstacle = a certain obstacle
Gene therapy is potentially dangerous to the recepient?
No one can not say that straight forward. Gener therapy is a technique to cure disease by injecting a healthy gene (to replace the defective) to the tissues by viral based vectors. Though it is carefully controlled, there is a risk that it may integrated in a region where it could potentially can cause cancer or other genetic diseases.
Can viruses be used as vectors in gene therapy?
No, there are other methods. One sometimes called the "shotgun" method takes microscopic tungsten pellets, coats them with the genetic material to be inserted, places them in a microscopic "gun", places the gun aimed at the organ to be treated and fires it with a pulse of air or water. A tiny fraction of the tungsten pellets enter cells, a fraction of those enter the nucleus, and in a fraction of those nuclei the material incorporates somewhere randomly into one or more chromosomes.
