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The body is meekly and specially designed to regulate its process by different mechanisms. The leukocytes are charged with the function of combatting infection and mounting self-defense mechanism against pathogens and any foreign bodies. Other homeostatic processes critical to maintaining body functions are thermoregulation, excretion, and maintenance of electrolyte balance. The body is prone to […]
The history of gene therapy was conceptualized in 1972. Gene therapy aka human gene transfer is a field of medicine that aims to treat different diseases by therapeutically delivering nucleic acid into affected cells of patients. Martin Cline was the first person to attempt modifying human DNA in 1980. However, the first successful (and NIS […]
What are the Benefits of Gene Therapy? Gene therapy has a lot of therapeutic potential and, most of all, it aims to cure someone who was born with the genetic disorder have a fighting chance against what otherwise would have been incurable. The human body is susceptible to thousands of diseases. Some of these diseases […]