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    STS 1 Act 6 Gene Therapy

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    Gene therapy is an experimental method to treat disease by modifying a patient's genetic material. It works by inserting a healthy copy of a faulty gene into a patient's cells in order to restore normal cell function. Diseases that may be treated with gene therapy include cancer, cystic fibrosis, heart disease, diabetes, hemophilia, and AIDS. There are risks associated with gene therapy, such as the immune system reacting to the new gene as an intruder and causing inflammation. Gene therapy could also result in overproduction of a protein, the effects of which depend on the specific protein. Clinical trials are evaluating the impacts of potential overproduction.

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    Gene therapy is an experimental method to treat disease by modifying a patient's genetic material. It works by inserting a healthy copy of a faulty gene into a patient's cells in order to restore normal cell function. Diseases that may be treated with gene therapy include cancer, cystic fibrosis, heart disease, diabetes, hemophilia, and AIDS. There are risks associated with gene therapy, such as the immune system reacting to the new gene as an intruder and causing inflammation. Gene therapy could also result in overproduction of a protein, the effects of which depend on the specific protein. Clinical trials are evaluating the impacts of potential overproduction.

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    Gene therapy is an experimental method to treat disease by modifying a patient's genetic material. It works by inserting a healthy copy of a faulty gene into a patient's cells in order to restore normal cell function. Diseases that may be treated with gene therapy include cancer, cystic fibrosis, heart disease, diabetes, hemophilia, and AIDS. There are risks associated with gene therapy, such as the immune system reacting to the new gene as an intruder and causing inflammation. Gene therapy could also result in overproduction of a protein, the effects of which depend on the specific protein. Clinical trials are evaluating the impacts of potential overproduction.

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    TARLAC STATE UNIVERSITY

    COLLEGE OF SCIENCE
    DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE
    SCHOOL YEAR 2021-2021

    SCIENCE TECHNOLOGY AND SICIETY


    ACTIVITY #6: GENE THERAPY
    FINALS

    Name: Justine Y. Escoto Section: FA 3-A Date Submitted:12/8/2021

    INSTRUCTION: Be specific in your answers. You may add references in your


    responses but note your citations. Please be informed that I will do a plagiarism check
    on all of your submitted work.

    1.) What is Gene therapy? How it works? (10 pts)

    Gene therapy is an experimental method of treating disease by modifying the genetic material of
    the patient. Gene therapy usually involves inserting a healthy copy of a faulty gene into the
    patient's cells. The objective is to change the genetic code of the patient's disease-causing cell and
    then restore normal conditions to that cell. Genes contain your DNA which governs much of the
    structure and function of your body, from making you taller to regulating your body systems, is
    contained in your genes.

    2.) Which diseases are treated by gene therapy? (10 pts)

    Gene therapy attempts to cure sickness or increase your body's ability to fight disease by replacing
    a broken gene or adding a new gene. Gene therapy has promise in the treatment of cancer, cystic
    fibrosis, heart disease, diabetes, hemophilia, and AIDS, among other disorders.

    Gene therapy has successfully addressed a number of inherited immunological disorders. Patients'
    blood stem cells are usually extracted, and retroviruses are employed to give functional copies of
    the faulty genes. Gene treatments are being researched to cure a variety of inherited blindness,
    particularly degenerative forms in which patients lose their light-sensing cells over time.

    3.) Are there risks associated with gene therapy? (10 pts)

    The body's immune system may react to the newly introduced therapeutic vector as if it were an
    intruder, just as it would to any other gene therapy. Inflammation and other hazardous
    consequences can result from an immune system reaction. Gene therapy could result in an excess
    of the protein being produced. Depending on the type of protein produced, the effect of this
    overproduction, or over-expression, may differ. Gene therapy clinical trials are now evaluating the
    impact of overproduction.

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