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Gene therapy
1Clinical Gene Therapy Branch, National Human Genome Research Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland 20892, USA.
The Nursing Clinics of North America
|August 25, 2000
Abstract:
Gene therapy represents a fundamentally new way to treat disease. Originally conceived as an approach to hereditary disease, it is now being applied to a broad range of acquired conditions such as infections, cancers, and degenerative disorders. A current overview of gene therapy is presented in this article, including descriptions of two clinical protocols and perspectives for new directions.