Biology Question on Applications of Biotechnology

Question

First clinical gene therapy was performed to prevent development of

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Solution

Gene therapy is the use of nucleic acid polymers as a drug to treat disease by therapeutic delivery into a patient?s cells, where they are either expressed as proteins, interfere with the expression of proteins, or possibly even correct genetic mutations. The first FDA - approved gene therapy experiment in the United States occurred in 1990, when Ashanti De silva was treated for ADA-SCID.