gene therapy

noun

|Updated on: 11 Jul 2018

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Definition of gene therapy

: 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

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gene therapist

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Examples of gene therapy in a Sentence

advances in the science of gene therapy

Recent Examples of gene therapy from the Web

With gene therapy surfacing as perhaps the most imminent frontier, working inside the double helixes could render many of our medical modalities laughable.

— katie kosma, Longreads, "Gene Therapy: God Discusses Its Future Possibilities," 6 July 2018
Sarepta’s gene therapy is hardly a sure bet, and the company’s competition may come up with something better.

— the editorial board, WSJ, "A Risky Drug Approval Lesson," 4 July 2018
It's called gene therapy, like taking the bad part of the gene off and putting the new gene back into the brain.

— asher fogle, Good Housekeeping, "Both My Daughters Will Die If We Can't Find a Cure," 15 June 2015
The next year, Roche acquired Mirus Bio Corp., a Madison biotech firm focused on RNA interference and gene therapies, for $125 million.

— rick romell, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, "More than 200 jobs to be lost as Madison, Janesville businesses close," 20 June 2018
Neither of these patients received the new version of the gene therapy, however.

— adam feuerstein, STAT, "New Bluebird data show promising benefits for gene therapy, if they last," 15 June 2018
The gene therapy is administered through a single dose injection.

— stephen singer, courant.com, "FDA Approves First Gene Therapy Clinical Trial For Rare Disease," 26 Apr. 2018
His laboratory pressed ahead with pioneering work developing gene therapy vectors and made key discoveries about cancer-causing genes such as the breast cancer gene BRCA1.

— meredith wadman, Science | AAAS, "Famed cancer biologist allegedly sexually harassed women for decades," 26 Apr. 2018
To prepare their bodies for the gene therapy, patients then underwent four days of the chemotherapy drug busulfan intravenously.

— jacqueline howard, CNN, "Gene therapy helps patients avoid blood transfusion," 18 Apr. 2018

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1970

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GENE THERAPY Defined for English Language Learners

gene therapy

noun

Definition of gene therapy for English Language Learners

medical : a way of treating some disorders and diseases that usually involves replacing bad copies of genes with other genes

Medical Dictionary

gene therapy

noun

medical Definition of gene therapy

: 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)

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