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Gene therapy is a way doctors can treat a disease by inserting a healthy gene into a patient’s cells, instead of using drugs or surgery. The new version of the gene helps the patient's body fight the disease. Gene therapy is

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gene therapy is when a normal gene is transplanted in the place of a defective or missing gene(s) to fix or correct genetic disorders.
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Answer: Gene therapy is done to correct genetic disorder

Gene therapy is a therapy that is given in order to treat a wide variety of disease such as hemophilia, cystic fibrosis, heart disease, cancer etc. It is a therapeutic delivery of nucleic acid into the patient as a drug to treat disease. It is done by inserting a new gene to replace a missing gene or non-functional gene, which can restore the function of the gene by encoding a functional protein.

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