Gene therapy - Mayo Clinic
Gene therapy aims to fix a faulty gene or replace it with a healthy gene to try to cure disease or make the body better able to fight disease. It holds promise as a treatment for a wide range of diseases, such as cancer, cystic fibrosis, heart disease, diabetes, hemophilia and AIDS.

Gene therapy - Wikipedia
Gene therapy is a medical technology that aims to produce a therapeutic effect through the manipulation of gene expression or through altering the biological properties of living cells. [ 1 ][ 2 ][ 3 ]

What is Gene Therapy? | FDA - U.S. Food and Drug Administration
Gene therapy is a technique that modifies a person’s genes to treat or cure disease. Gene therapies can work by several mechanisms: Replacing a disease-causing gene with a...

Welcome to Gene Therapy - Nature
At the forefront of medicine, Gene Therapy brings you the latest research into genetic and cell-based technologies to treat disease. It also publishes reviews and articles, which highlight the...

Gene Therapy Definition, Pros & Cons - Cleveland Clinic
Gene therapy is an innovative approach to medicine that uses genetic material to prevent, treat and potentially even cure disease. In gene therapy, genetic material is delivered to your cells and changes how your cells produce proteins.

Gene therapy | Description, Uses, Examples, & Safety Issues
Gene therapy, introduction of a normal gene into an individual’s genome in order to repair a mutation that causes a genetic disease. Human gene therapy has been attempted on somatic (body) cells for diseases such as cystic fibrosis and cancer.

What Is Gene Therapy: Risks, Benefits, and More - Verywell Health
Gene therapy is a relatively new treatment designed to alleviate disease by modifying defective genes or altering the production of proteins by faulty genes. There are several ways that healthy genes can be inserted into the body, such as inside a deactivated virus or inside a fat particle.

Gene Therapy - National Human Genome Research Institute
Gene therapy is a technique that uses a gene (s) to treat, prevent or cure a disease or medical disorder. Often, gene therapy works by adding new copies of a gene that is broken, or by replacing a defective or missing gene in a patient’s cells with a healthy version of that gene.

What is gene therapy? - MedlinePlus
Gene therapy is a medical approach that treats or prevents disease by correcting the underlying genetic problem instead of using drugs or surgery.

Gene therapy: advances, challenges and perspectives - PMC
Gene therapy is understood as the capacity for gene improvement by means of the correction of altered (mutated) genes or site-specific modifications that have therapeutic treatment as target.