Stem cell therapy is gaining popularity in India to treat a wide variety of medical conditions including Leukaemia, Thalassemia, damaged cornea and severe burns. Describe briefly what stem cell therapy is and what advantages it has over other treatments ?

Gene therapy & its feature

↳ It involves genetic modification technique to solve biological problem via

• Deletion of genes → causing such problem
• Alteration of genes } To correct genehe
• Addition of genes } defect

Eg: CART Therapy being used in treatment of Cancer

Advantage of Gene Therapy

1. Emerged as useful technique in biological issue which were earlier considered as untreatable

eg - CART therapy using T-cell to kill cancer cell completely ii) Can be helpful in tackling genetic diseases eg → Sickle cell disease iii) Can be helpful in creating cure for rare diseases iv) Have potential to revolutionise medical field via