Question

Gene therapy is a process that involves:

• A. The correction of a diagnosed gene defect
• B. The insertion of genes into tissues or cells to treat disease
• C. The delivery of a functional gene to compensate the effects of a non-functional one
• D. All of the above.

Answer 1

The correct option is D All of the above.

Gene therapy is the therapeutic delivery of nucleic acid polymers into a patient's cells as a drug to treat disease. Gene therapy could be performed in order to correct the function of gene defect that could be in the form of a nonfunctional gene. Here synthesized functional genes are inserted into the cells or tissue of a patient and then those cells are delivered to patient to compensate for the effects of the non-functioning gene.