How Does Gene Therapy Work?
Gene therapy is preformed by introducing gene into a vector to help fight the disease. Vectors are viruses which changed to normal human DNA and they also spread quickly which means that this can fight back the disease. This type of gene therapy is called somatic gene therapy. If this does work normally without any flaws the future generation should not have any problems with inheriting the same disease. Sometimes this whole process will have to be repeated if the targeted vector does not survive for more than 2 weeks, and there is also the fact that we have to consider where the doctors have to pick 1 infected gene out of thousand which can be a hard task, but there is more advances is molecular biology which makes this more easier. There has also been research done on animal which uses germ line gene therapy, but it is not safe using on humans considering the high risk such as, using a special microscopic needle which has a high rate of failure because it is difficult to control where the gene is inserted.