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5 Facts you should know about

Gene therapy

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Human gene therapy seeks to modify or manipulate the expression of a gene or to alter the biological properties of living cells for therapeutic use

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Somatic gene therapy represents mainstream clinical research, in which a gene (therapeutic DNA) is used to treat disease

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The first therapeutic use of gene transfer was performed by French Anderson in a trial starting in September 1990

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In 2017, Spark Therapeutics' Luxturna for RPE65 mutation-induced blindness was the first therapeutic gene therapy approved in the United States

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To date, most of the successful approaches in gene therapy utilize adeno-associated viruses (AAVs)

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