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Treatment that alters a gene. In studies of gene therapy for cancer, researchers are trying to improve the body's natural ability to fight the disease or to make the cancer cells more sensitive to other kinds of therapy.
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Any of a number of experimental treatments in which cell genes are altered. Some gene therapies attempt to provoke new immune activity; some try to render cells resistant to infection; and others involve the development of enzymes that destroy viral or cancerous genetic material within cells.
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| gene therapy |
The correction of a genetic deficiency in a cell by the addition of new DNA and its insertion into the genome.
Ãâó: helios.bto.ed.ac.uk/bto/glossary/gh.htm
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| gene therapy |
Treatment of a disease caused by malfunction of a gene, by stably transfecting the cells of the organism with the normal gene.
Ãâó: virtualtrials.com/dictionary.cfm
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| gene therapy |
Treatment to modify the genes of a person's white blood cells or tumor cells to try to control or cure the cancer.
Ãâó: nydailynews.healthology.com/nydailynews/15836.htm
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