Gene Therapy

Will Gene therapy one day become the ultimate application of genetic engineering? Gene Therapy, the youngest in the booklet Special Topics in Biology Series, addresses this issue by exploring gene therapy as a sophisticated technology for delivering therapeutic genes as a way to treatment and cure of human genetic diseases. Author Mary Colavito provides an overview of basic science involved in gene therapy methods and time history of gene therapy through discussion and continued successful gene therapy treatments as well as bad in some cases the results of gene therapy. Also discussed challenges must be overcome for gene therapy to become a more reliable and easily accessible approach to dealing with a variety of genetic diseases that affect humans. Gene Therapy: Methods today, partial successes and Ongoing Trials, setbacks, challenges, future approaches for all readers interested in gene therapy as a sophisticated technology for delivering therapeutic genes as a way to treat and cure genetic diseases human.