Gene Therapy
- Created by: Emily Dore
- Created on: 04-01-13 15:07
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- Gene Therapy
- Altering alleles to cure genetic disorders
- Recessive
- Add a working dominant allele
- Dominant
- 'Silence' it so allele doesn't work anymore
- Recessive
- Alleles inserted using 'vectors' (vehicles for alleles)
- Different vectors
- Altered viruses
- Plasmids (rings of bacterial DNA)
- Liposomes (spheres of lipids)
- Different vectors
- Somatic
- Body cells
- e.g. epithelial cells lining the lungs (because CF causes respiritory problems)
- Body cells
- Germ line
- Sex cells
- Every cell of offspring will be affected by therapy (Won't have the disease)
- Illegal in humans
- Sex cells
- Altering alleles to cure genetic disorders
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