gene therapy

noun

: the insertion of usually genetically altered genes into cells especially to replace defective genes in the treatment of genetic disorders or to provide a specialized disease-fighting function

gene therapist noun

Example Sentences

advances in the science of gene therapy

Recent Examples on the Web

Form Bio is developing a software platform, designed to help scientists manage large and complicated datasets, that could be useful for drug discovery, gene therapy, and academic research. —WIRED, 31 Jan. 2023

That meant shifting away from a gene therapy for GM2 gangliosidosis, also known as Tay-Sachs disease or Sandhoff disease, that was already in a clinical trial. —Dallas News, 29 Aug. 2022

Not only are the new drugs costly to research and develop but some treatments are for just a few patients with very rare diseases and some, like gene therapy, are used only once rather than over a person’s lifetime. —Francesca Paris, New York Times, 7 Feb. 2023

The first gene therapy for sickle cell disease, based on a CRISPR snip, is expected to be approved later this year. —Karen Weintraub, USA TODAY, 30 Jan. 2023

Landau acknowledges that regulators aren’t likely to approve gene therapy targeting SARS-CoV-2 in otherwise healthy people. —Byrobert F. Service, science.org, 26 Jan. 2023

But with the advent of tools like gene therapy, antisense oligonucleotides, CRISPR gene editing, and RNA modalities, the discovery of new treatments is now within the reach of a broader population of scientists — and even nonscientists. —Vanessa Almendro, STAT, 12 Jan. 2023

Last year, bluebird bio pulled its gene therapy, Zynteglo, from the German market over a pricing dispute. —Rita Numerof, Forbes, 10 Nov. 2022

Yet gene therapy cannot undo all the effects of sickle cell. —Gina Kolata, New York Times, 17 Jan. 2023

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Word History

First Known Use

1970, in the meaning defined above

Kids Definition

gene therapy

noun

: the insertion of a functioning gene into cells especially to replace a defective gene in the treatment of genetic disorders

Medical Definition

gene therapy

noun

: the insertion of usually genetically altered genes into cells especially to replace defective genes in the treatment of genetic disorders or to provide a specialized disease-fighting function (as the destruction of tumor cells)

gene therapist noun