Gene Therapy will soon become the number one option to help someone with a disease. As of right now gene therapy is not as popular as it should be. The reason for that being is because for some diseases, it is in a trial phase. Scientists are currently working on rats/mice before performing on a human being. Although there are some setbacks with Gene Therapy, there is still potential for it to be an end to the disease. By seeing the end in the future of any disease, lets hope that gene therapy will be the reason that that happens. One day we will hopefully see an end to diseases caused by mutations. The first step is to make sure that gene therapy will work. Currently many fails have happen but also a lot of success rates too. Because the therapy alters the genes, that mutated gene has been replaced by the corrected gene making inheritance to contract the disease harder. There is always a possibility of inheriting the disease even if the person who gave it to you had gene therapy already.
In the future Gene Therapy will be pursued on the daily to help the disease from possibly getting it from
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Gelsinger was the first reported person to die from gene therapy. He was diagnosed with a metabolic disorder (ornithine transcarbamylase (OTC) deficiency). It affected 1 out of 40,000 newborns and within 72 hours they would be in a coma, with the max life of only 5 years. Because he only had partial OTC, he was the perfect candidate for the trial. He was given the corrected version of OTC through infusion. Gelsinger had a severe immune reaction that was caused by the vector. This failure sparked the FDA to halt all other trials of gene therapy at the University of Pennsylvania to make sure the staff is adequately trained. Also, although there is failure of gene therapy, the scientists will find more efficient ways to make sure they see no more failure that will affect the future patients of gene