Gene Therapy: The “Hope” for Immunologic disorders!
About Immunologic disorders
Immunological disorders are a dysfunction of the immune system. These disorders cause abnormally low activity or overactivity of the immune system. In cases of immune system overactivity, the body attacks and damages its own tissues. These diseases decrease the body's ability to fight invaders, causing vulnerability to infections. Most immunological diseases are caused by errors (mutations) in specific genes. It has long been the hope that one day it would be possible to cure these diseases by fixing the mutation that causes the disease and thus affect a cure. As a result of the human gen...