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What's the difference between gene therapy and stem cell therapy?
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Apples and oranges: stem cell therapy is the injection of stem cells which are pluripotent, which means they are a primitive type of cell which can differentiate into any kind of cel-- for example, a liver cell or a muscle cell or a skin cell.Gene therapy aims to introduce normal genes when the person has mutant genes which do not function adequately to prevent disease.
Answered 5/30/2016
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