ESSENTIALS OF GENETICS >CUSTOM<
ESSENTIALS OF GENETICS >CUSTOM<
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ISBN: 9781269452403
Author: KLUG
Publisher: Pearson Custom Publishing
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The difference between the ex-vivo and in-vivo gene therapy.

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Gene therapy is a therapeutic technique of transferring normal genes into the patients suffering from genetic disorders. The normal genes which are tailor-made in laboratories, after being transferred are then transcribed producing normal products. This way the correct phenotype is produced and the disease is corrected.

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