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Is somatic gene therapy (which is done in the adult cells of persons known to have the disease) more or less ethical than germline gene therapy (which is done in egg and sperm cells and prevents the trait from being passed on to further generations)?
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Gene therapy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Gene therapy is the insertion of genes into an individual's cells and tissues to treat a disease, such as a hereditary disease in which a deleterious mutant allele is replaced with a functional one. A...
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The young man on Albert Maguire's operating table had a big red "X" drawn on the right side of his forehead. ... Tommaso Ferraro's eyes are examined during a checkup at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia in March. Experimental gene therapy appears to have done what nothing else could - restored his eyesight.
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To date, most gene therapy studies have been done in the laboratory and the earliest experiments seem promising for treatment of cardiovascular disease. ...
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Gene therapy is done only through clinical trials, which often take years to complete. After new drugs or procedures are tested in laboratories, clinical trials are conducted with human patients under strictly controlled circumstances.
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At the present time, gene therapy is an experimental discipline and much research remains to be done before this approach to the treatment of disease will realise its full potential. Between 1989 and 2008, 1472 clinical gene therapy trials were initiated or approved worldwide.
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