Definition of Gene therapy

1. Noun. Any of several therapies involving the insertion of genes into a patient's cells in order to replace defective ones ¹

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Medical Definition of Gene therapy

1. Treatment of a disease caused by malfunction of a gene, by stably transfecting the cells of the organism with the normal gene. This entry appears with permission from the Dictionary of Cell and Molecular Biology (11 Mar 2008)

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gene product
gene products
gene rearrangement
gene redundancy
gene regulation
gene regulatory protein
gene sequencing
gene silencing
gene splicing
gene supression
gene switch
gene synthesis
gene targeting
gene testing
gene therapies
gene therapy (current term)
gene transfer
gene translocation
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