Genetic Relational Therapy

Gene therapy consists of repairing abnormal genes which leads to disease. In the treatment of genetic maladies, drug genes are introduced into the diseased cells. These genes are the healthy genes that must replace the defective genes that are responsible for diseases. They are introduced into the disease cells using the vectors. Vectors are the safest means of transport from the healthy gene to the disease cells; This vector must contain the gene and be capable of conveying it and bringing it into the diseased cells. In this world we have many vectors that are subdivided into two main categories including viral vectors and non-viral vectors. Viral vectors are viruses that have been rendered harmless and in which healthy genes have been introduced. The …show more content…
Transmitted to all daughter cells of the first embryonic cells. This means all the cells of the individual future. Thus all the genetic heritage of the human species will be modified, even all the germinal cells of the future individual and ultimately all patrimony will be transmitted hereditarily to all the descendants, which violates the therapeutic principle that one never affects the hereditary patrimony of an individual. By touching the hereditary heritage of an individual, the individual would risk being unproductive or sterile because the more an individual's germ is modified, the more the functioning of the organism changes and the risk of having children irresistible to certain Practice is formally prohibited from fear that there are many attempts of this kind without motives and that goes for eugenic purposes. second, somatic gene therapy involves introducing genes specifically into somatic cells (non-sexual or non-reproductive). They correct a genetic abnormality of a group of cells and its progeny. This therapy is based on the fact that each cell in the organism is specialized and possess only some functions of its own. Examples liver cells can only eliminate certain toxic substances (foodborne like alcohol or produced by the body) or make albumin but cannot make …show more content…
The current results do not yet live up to the hopes originally generated by this new therapeutic approach. Nevertheless, an objective examination of what has already been achieved is reasonably optimistic for the future. The experimental and clinical studies carried out to date have made it possible to identify the main difficulties inherent in the development of the method: the lack of efficiency of gene transfer seems to be a major cause of failure to date. Gene therapy will continue to be an essential research pathway for treating hereditary monogenic diseases, providing a protein deficiency and renewing the practice of vaccinations. In the case of the treatment of malignant tumors, in particular the digestive tract, it will be necessary to continue identifying the genes encoding proteins whose absence or insufficient production play a decisive role in the development of the disease. Finally, the successes and failures associated with cell therapy trials must now be exploited to allow for a better approach to gene transfer therapy. Gene therapy is therefore a virgin and unexplored territory. If the applications of gene therapy seem immense, the task that remains to be accomplished is also