Gene Therapy to “block” Infectious disorders!
Until recently, the idea of genetically modifying a person’s immune system to make it resistant to infectious disorders like HIV was considered so impractical that it belonged in the realm of science fiction. However over the past year or so, an accumulation of new data has offered hope that it may eventually be possible to translate this idea into science fact.
About Gene Therapy
Gene therapy is the introduction of functioning genes into the cells of a human patient, to express desired functions or to correct defective or non-operational genes within those cells. Moreover, the procedure allows the addition of new functio...
