Genetics:
How does gene therapy work?
What are the challenges of gene therapy?
Identify a disease state that could be treated with gene
therapy.
There are several ethical issues surrounding gene
therapy. Pick one and state whether you agree or disagree with the
position. Explain your answer.
There are both highs and lows in gene therapy. Research
the stories of Ashanti de Silva and Jesse Gelsinger. Based on the
outcomes of these treatments, do you think experimental gene
therapy trials...
Describe gene therapy? Choose any human condition
that is currently being treated with gene therapy. Identify and
describe the genetic deficiency that the strategy is intended to
address. Describe the proposed gene therapy procedure. Identify
successes, failures, or observed adverse consequences that have
been associated with this condition in gene therapy in the past or
currently. 100 words minimum
What is the difference between gene therapy and stem cell
therapy? What are some of the successes that have been achieved
using gene therapies?
whats the Differentiate between embryonic stem cells and adult
stem cells. What are the advantages of each? The disadvantages?
Stem cells therapies have been controversial. What are some of
the reasons for the debates about this science? What do you think?
Do we need legislation and regulation? Who should oversee this
research? What kinds of laws...
You wish to perform gene therapy to correct a mutated gene to
wildtype in an adult organism. You decide to use the new CRISPR
system to accomplish this task. Three important CRISPR-related
components must be included in the virus that will be used to treat
the subject. What are these three components, and
what is the function of each?
In the case of Jesse Gelsinger, a young man who died during gene
therapy, the therapy involved delivery via a viral vector. Was this
germ-line or somatic therapy?
Chose an industry you are familiar with and discuss the current
barriers to entry. How great is the threat of new entry into the
market? Are there any switching costs? Does this industry have
problems with substitute products? Reply to other student’s posts
with a suggestion on how to lessen or increase current barriers to
entry
1. Two approaches for correcting single-gene defects are gene
therapy such as is discussed in Section 3-5D and the CRISPR–Cas9
system. Explain why the CRISPR–Cas9 approach can potentially
provide more complete restoration of normal tissue function than
gene therapy.
2. A certain mutant DNA polymerase is error-prone, tending to
incor-porate C opposite a template A. When such a DNA polymerase
repli-cates a segment of DNA containing an A · T base pair, what
will be the DNA composition in the...
Which type of gene therapy results in alteration of the DNA of a
gamete or a fertilized ovum?
Somatic gene therapy
Ex vivo gene therapy
In situ gene therapy
Reversible gene therapy
Germline gene therapy
In a DNA microarray experiment, fluorescently labeled ______ are
allowed to bind to known ______ sequences on a grid.
RNA; DNA
DNA; RNA
RNA; cDNA
RNA; RNA
cDNA; DNA
RNA interference (RNAi) functions to:
turn on certain genes
turn off certain genes
prevent the translation...