Imagine that one day your son or daughter is diagnosed with a terminal disease and the doctor tells you that you can try to use gene therapy to save them, except it's an experiment, so it could be risky. While this may not happen because it is a new technique and is not funded for hospital use, you can still learn about it if you read this article. Gene therapy is a process where you take healthy DNA or stem cells and use them on damaged or infected versions to make them healthy again. You may not know much about it because it doesn't have as much funding as many other things, but it helps people get better in less time. I believe that with gene therapy we can cure many diseases in the world. Treatments that include gene therapy are limited, but here are a few. A tool called “Skin Gun” uses healthy skin stem cells and when you spray them on the burned cells it heals them within 3-4 days. In normal treatment of burned skin, the skin "grows out" and this takes a week or two. Scientists take DNA from your body or another body and modify it outside the body and then insert it...
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