Gene therapy: advances, challenges and perspectives

ABSTRACT The ability to make site-specific modifications to the human genome has been an objective in medicine since the recognition of the gene as the basic unit of heredity. Thus, gene therapy is understood as the ability of genetic improvement through the correction of altered (mutated) genes or...

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Main Author: Gonçalves,Giulliana Augusta Rangel (author)
Other Authors: Paiva,Raquel de Melo Alves (author)
Format: article
Language:eng
Published: 2017
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Online Access:http://old.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1679-45082017000300369
Country:Brazil
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