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Gene therapy is the delivery of nucleic acid for the expression of a therapeutic product in order to treat diseases on a genetic level. This is especially well suited for diseases that involve missing, defective, or overexpressing genes.
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Slavcev, R.A. (2018). Introduction. In: Slavcev, R., Wettig, S., Zeng, Z. (eds) Nanomedicine. Experientia Supplementum, vol 110. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-78259-1_1
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