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Gene Therapy
Human Gene Therapy
Harsh Lessons, High Hopes
Most diseases have a genetic component and can be cured, not merely treated with gene therapy. This applies to a wide range of ailment form, inherited diseases such as cystic fibrosis and chronic conditions like cancer to infectious diseases such as HIV and AIDS. In the time period from 1990 until 2000 over 400 clinical trials, to test this technology against a huge array of diseases, have been launched by researchers worldwide. Cancer has dominated this research but little of it has worked. In 1999 things got worse for this research because a patient died from a reaction to gene therapy at the University of Pennsylvania’s Institute of Human Gene Therapy. The after math of this death was terrible and there have been many actions taken to cut the chances...
Human Gene Therapy
Harsh Lessons, High Hopes
Most diseases have a genetic component and can be cured, not merely treated with gene therapy. This applies to a wide range of ailment form, inherited diseases such as cystic fibrosis and chronic conditions like cancer to infectious diseases such as HIV and AIDS. In the time period from 1990 until 2000 over 400 clinical trials, to test this technology against a huge array of diseases, have been launched by researchers worldwide. Cancer has dominated this research but little of it has worked. In 1999 things got worse for this research because a patient died from a reaction to gene therapy at the University of Pennsylvania’s Institute of Human Gene Therapy. The after math of this death was terrible and there have been many actions taken to cut the chances...
Posted by: Leonard Herriman
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