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Title: Can gene therapy cure a defective immune system?
Post by: system on 20/04/2011 10:25:42
An important group of diseases are those that occur when a person inherits a defective form of an essential gene.  Historically, there's been very little that could be done to cure people with this sort of problem.  But now that's changing and a number of techniques exist to help people who suffer from some of these sorts of disorders.  One of the pioneers in this field is Professor Adrian Thrasher.  
Read a transcript of the interview by clicking here (http://www.thenakedscientists.com/HTML/content/interviews/interview/1647/)
or [chapter podcast=3079 track=11.04.17/Naked_Scientists_Show_11.04.17_8371.mp3](https://www.thenakedscientists.com/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.thenakedscientists.com%2FHTML%2Ftypo3conf%2Fext%2Fnaksci_podcast%2Fgnome-settings-sound.gif&hash=f2b0d108dc173aeaa367f8db2e2171bd) Listen to it now[/chapter] or [download as MP3] (http://nakeddiscovery.com/downloads/split_individual/11.04.17/Naked_Scientists_Show_11.04.17_8371.mp3)

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