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Gene therapy
* Gene therapies can repair the damage after a heart attack and prevent massive cell death
  - lie at the frontier of cancer research
* Most gene therapy extends life.
* Much gene therapy is aimed at repairing a defective protein or fighting an invading organism.
* See how gene therapy can help fight disease.
* Some gene therapy enhances effects.
* Some gene therapy shows disorder
  - immune disorder
  - rare disorder
* Some gene therapy shows rare immune disorder
  - system disorder
* Some gene therapy uses adenovirus vectors
* affects in most cases too few cells to be useful.
* aids heart-disease treatment.
* aims to correct the DNA of a patient suffering from a genetic disease
  - treat a disease by modifying the action of a person's genes
* appears to be less mired in ethical problems than is gene diagnosis.
* approaches for inherited and acquired lung diseases
  - thrombotic disorders
  - in the cardiovascular system
* benefits society by improving quality of life issues.
* brings along with it another closely related practice, that is, negative eugenic.
* can be very beneficial to individuals with diseases that cause themselves harm
  - involve either germ line or somatic line cells
  - take different approaches based on the form of the disease
* controversial issue in today s science society.
* corrects mouse lupus.
* enables one to deliver active proteins to the defective macular tissues.
* enters adolescence.
* gives blood a path around leg blockages, researchers say.
* has many of the worst examples of clinical research that exist.
* has the potential to be a one-shot cure
  - offer solutions where current treatments fall short
  - yet to cure anyone
* helps problems
  - to treat a heart problems in rat study
* holds great promise for treating cancer, inherited disorders, and other diseases
  - cystic fibrosis
  - promise as a potential avenue to cure a wide range of retinal diseases
* involves altering genetic material to treat disease
  - correction of defects in genetic material
  - delivering corrective genes to the cells of selected tissues
  - putting genes into humans to cure genetic disease
  - replacement of disease-causing genes with correctly functioning ones
* is also paramount in fighting tumors and improving outcomes.
* is an area of intense research
  - exiting, new approach in the treatment of malignant disease
* is an experimental treatment for serious diseases including cancer
  - investigational treatment for glioblastoma multiforme
  - attractive because it seems to cause few adverse reactions
  - based on altering a disease at the roots
  - basically genotypic pharmacology
  - carried out in animal models using adenovirus and liposomes vector systems
  - currently the biggest hope for people suffering from genetic diseases
  - designed to enhance the body's abilities to build new routes
  - directed against cancer
  - essential to the development of making a sick child healthy
  - medical treatments
  - one of a variety of therapeutic modalities, all of which have risks
* is one of the most exciting technologies for the future
  - hyped areas of new-age medicine
  - way that scientists are testing to selectively aid only ailing neurons
  - performed by replacing diseased phenotypes with new genetic material
  - predicted to be the fourth revolution in medicine
  - still far from being applied to human subjects in a clinical setting
* is the administration of genes to a patient for therapeutic purposes
  - highly technical science of altering genes
  - identification and eventual manipulation of a cell to correct a genetic defect
  - insertion of genetic material into cells to prevent, control, or cure disease
  - modification of the tumor's genes to cause it to self-destruct
  - most heavily regulated sector of the biopharmaceutical industry
  - process of supplying cells with healthy copies of missing or flawed genes
  - transfer of genes into cells to achieve a therapeutic effect
* is the treatment of a disease by replacing a missing or defective gene
  - the future for cancer
  - ultimate endgame of genomics
  - use of genes to treat disease
* is the use of genetic information that can be used in medicine to cure people
  - material for therapeutic applications
  - therapy that changes genes
  - under study as a possible treatment for mucopolysaccharidosis
* is used for genetic diseases
  - to modulate the healing process
* makes blind puppies see Scientists have used gene therapy to make blind puppies see
  - it possible to correct such defects in the function of cells
* means altering the genotype of a tissue or even a whole human.
* offers a new treatment paradigm for curing human disease.
* offers the only true cure for many diseases
  - possibility of inserting the deficient gene in the target organ
* potential approach to the treatment of genetic disorders in human beings
  - genetic disorders in humans
* promising new field of medical research.
* promising, new method being tested against bladder cancer.
* raises ethical issues in regards to the quality of life of people with disabilities.
* rapidly emerging part of biomedicine.
* represents one hope for preventing the loss of the dopamine-producing neurons.
* restores dogs' sight.
* restores vision in a canine model of childhood blindness
  - of severe childhood blindness
  - to blind dog
* revolutionary approach to fight and prevent disease.
* seeks to cure inherited diseases and cancer by giving patients new genes
  - prevent or treat diseases by introducing specific genes into cells
* shows first signs of bypassing arterial blockage.
* targeted by radiation preferentially radiosensitizes tumor cells.
* type of treatment which changes a person's genes to avoid illness.
* uses functional genes to replace defective genes that cause disease.
* using hypoxia promoters to regulate target genes is in trial.
* very young science that has been used in patients for only about ten years.
* works by replacing a person's defective genes with healthy genes.