Cell and Gene Therapy with Revolutionizing Treatment of Diseases
February 7, 2024 ⚊ 1 Min read ⚊ Views 37 ⚊ BUSINESS
Cell therapy involves transplantation or infusion of living cells into a patient\’s body to treat a disease. The cells can be stem cells, immune cells or other engineered cells. Gene therapy, on the other hand, utilizes genetic material such as DNA or RNA to treat or prevent diseases. The genetic material may carry a corrective gene that can compensate for a malfunctioning one or boost the body\’s immune response against certain conditions. Both cell and gene therapies aim to fix faulty genes responsible for causing diseases or replace cells that are dysfunctional or missing.
Cancer has been one of the primary targets for cell and gene therapies. Chimeric antigen receptor T-cell (CAR-T) therapy is a breakthrough treatment that customizes a patient\’s own T-cells to seek out and destroy cancer cells. This entails genetically modifying T-cells collected from the patient\’s blood to express receptors that specifically recognize antigens on cancer cells. The modified CAR-T cells
