The benefit of this approach over
other gene therapy techniques is that the new method can permanently correct the «defect» in a gene rather than just transiently adding a «functional» one, said Dr. Eric Olson, Director of the Hamon Center for Regenerative Science and Medicine at UT Southwestern and Chairman of Molecular Biology.
Not exact matches
Italy is already beginning to show its promise with the development of
gene -
therapy techniques and the discovery of
genes that could lead to a cure for Parkinson's disease and
other neurodegenerative disorders.
If you could figure out which modifications work, and if you could also find some
gene -
therapy technique for delivering those changes to the host cells, you could in principle make a person (or livestock, or any
other creature) inherently resistant not to just one virus but to all viruses, even those that have not been discovered.
Over the past ten years, researchers have developed several promising
gene therapy techniques to grow skin, bone, and
other tissues for reconstructive surgery.
In the future, scientists may be able to modify human stem cell lines in the laboratory by using
gene therapy or
other techniques to overcome this immune rejection.