How is gene therapy different from genome editing?

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Gene therapy - in the field of medicine gene therapy is use to treat genetic diseases.

 

Genome editing - it is also known as genome engineering or gene editing. This is a kind of technique in which DNA or gene of an organism is deleted, inserted, or replaced.

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