types of gene therapy

• Somatic Gene Therapy

  effective in treating various kinds of diseases such as:

  ✓ Cystic fibrosis ✓ Muscular dystrophy ✓ Cancer ✓ Infectious diseases
• somatic Gene Therapy

  can be broadly divided into two categories: ✓ Ex vivo gene therapy ✓ In vivo gene therapy
• Germline Gene Therapy

  Cells are modified by the introduction of functional genes into their genomes, This effect will be passed on to the patient’s children & subsequent generations because gene transfer can occur in all cells of the developing embryo
• Germline Gene Therapy

  there is a possibility of permanently removing an inherited disorder from a family line. However, it is not done on humans because of ethical issue and fear of altering the human genes.