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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. Although the technology is still in its infancy, it has been used with some success. Antisense therapy is not strictly a form of gene therapy, but is a genetically-mediated therapy and is often considered... Read enhanced Wikipedia article

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retrovirus, vectors and adenoviruses.

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Gene therapy One of the problems of gene therapy using retroviruses is that the integrase enzyme can insert the genetic material of the virus in any arbitrary position in the genome of the host- it randomly shoves the genetic material into a chromosome.

Ancient technology in Stargate Though rare naturally in most humans, Dr. Carson Beckett develops a retroviral gene therapy (using a deactivated mouse retrovirus) to transfer the Ancient gene expression to humans; but the treatment only has a 48% success rate.

Glioma The use of oncolytic viruses or gene therapy using prodrug converting retroviruses and adenoviruses is being studied for the treatment of gliomas.

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Gene therapy All this is clearly an oversimplification, and numerous problems exist that prevent gene therapy using viral vectors, such as: trouble preventing undesired effects, ensuring the virus will infect the correct target cell in the body, and ensuring that the inserted gene doesn't disrupt any vital genes already in the genome.

Erectile dysfunction hMaxi-K is a form of gene therapy using a plasmid vector that expresses the hSlo gene, that encodes the alpha-subunit of the Maxi-K channel.

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Glioma The use of oncolytic viruses or gene therapy using prodrug converting retroviruses and adenoviruses is being studied for the treatment of gliomas.

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spherocytosis, diseases and hemophilia.

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Spherocytosis Experimental gene therapy exists to treat hereditary spherocytosis in lab mice; however, this treatment has not yet been tried on humans and because of the risks involved in human gene therapy, it may never be.

Hereditary spherocytosis Experimental gene therapy exists to treat hereditary spherocytosis in lab mice; however, this treatment has not yet been tried on humans due to all of the risks involved in human gene therapy.

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Gene therapy This work will have important implications for the treatment of hemophilia and other genetic diseases by gene therapy.

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Gene therapy This work will have important implications for the treatment of hemophilia and other genetic diseases by gene therapy.

restored :
systems and expression.

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Severe combined immunodeficiency Trial treatments of SCID have been gene therapy's only success; since 1999, gene therapy has restored the immune systems of at least 17 children with two forms (ADA-SCID and X-SCID) of the disorder.

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Molecular genetics Nonclassical gene therapy inhibits the expression of genes related to pathogenesis, or corrects a genetic defect and restores normal gene expression.

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    Gene therapy

    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.
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    Biotechnology

    In contrast, in germline gene therapy, the egg and sperm cells of the parents are changed for the purpose of passing on the changes to their offspring.
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    Adeno-associated virus

    This feature, along with the ability to infect quiescent cells present their dominance over adenoviruses as vectors for the human gene therapy.
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    Viral vector

    Moreover, clinical trials that utilized lentiviral vectors to deliver gene therapy for the treatment of HIV experienced no increase in mutagenic or oncologic events.
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    Pharmacological gene therapy

    Pharmacological gene therapy is a new field that combines pharmacological therapy and gene therapy.
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    European Society of Gene and Cell Therapy

    The ESGT works with other entities in the scientific communities in the event that an adverse effect to a specific gene therapy is discovered.
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    Thymidine kinase

    The herpesvirus thymidine kinase gene has also been used as a “suicide gene” as a safety system in gene therapy experiments, allowing cells expressing the gene to be killed using ganciclovir.
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    Molecular genetics

    Nonclassical gene therapy inhibits the expression of genes related to pathogenesis, or corrects a genetic defect and restores normal gene expression.
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    American Society of Gene Therapy

    understanding, development and application of gene, related cell and nucleic acid therapies; ... American Society of Gene Therapy Official site
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    Gene Corp

    An example of The basic process of gene therapy: Start with identification of the gene in question, duplication of the gene then insertion using a vector into the human genome.

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