Gene therapy

I suppose I wouldn't be against curing any diseases, but gene therapy for purely cosmetic purposes seems a bit over the line, in my opinion. Although I am reminded ...

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... It is that kind of argument that are used to argue against cosmetic gene therapy, nobody thinks having smarter children is bad in itself.

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... John Harris is a strong advocate of gene therapy technologies. http://www.amazon.com/Case-against-Perfection-Genetic-Engineering/dp/067401927X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1238635047&sr=1-1 ...

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Exon skipping therapy is in clinical trials now ( http://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT00844597 ... antisense oligo. It is a nucleic acid "operation", but perhaps not a "genetic operation" as it changes a gene transcript and not the gene itself. Here are ...

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... diseases - use of viruses to transfer DNA in cells notably in gene therapy

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