Cell and Gene Therapy

• Gene therapy involves altering the genes inside your body’s cells in an effort to treat or stop disease.
• Gene therapy replaces a faulty gene or adds a new gene in an attempt to cure disease or improve your body’s ability to fight disease. Gene therapy holds promise for treating a wide range of diseases, such as cancer, cystic fibrosis, heart disease, diabetes, haemophilia and AIDS

Cell and gene therapy (CGT) has the potential to transform medicine, providing long term and potentially curative treatment options for a wide range of diseases ranging from dreaded cancers to genetic disorders to autoimmune diseases and many more.

Cell and gene therapy, represent overlapping fields of biomedical research with similar therapeutic goals, which target DNA or RNA inside or outside the body. Both approaches seek to modify genetic material to improve functioning or fight disease. Specifically, gene therapy uses genetic material, or DNA, to manipulate a patient’s cells for the treatment of an inherited or acquired disease. While cell therapy is the infusion or transplantation of whole cells into a patient for the treatment of an inherited or acquired disease. Regenerative medicine also includes therapeutic tissue engineering and biomaterials – engineered substances used in medical applications to augment or replace a natural body function.