Charlie,+Jye+-+Gene+Therapy

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Apparently you need something called a vector to insert the gene but, the gene cannot be injected straight into the body they have to place it in a virus. EDIT: it turns out that the “vector” is actually the virus used to carry the gene. There are different types of virus’s used to carry the gene/genes. they are:

I think that all these viruss' are just diseases like HIV/AIDS, Herpes and apparently the common cold EDIT: according to my sources, in a way they are giving people AIDS Herpes and the common cold but the virus’s/diseases are altered so the bad part of the virus is replaced with the gene so when inserted they won’t have Herpes or AIDS they will have the gene instead There is another way to insert the genes, there are several, but I don’t understand this one yet so I’ll add it in later. Alrght I’ll go a bit of topic for a sec here. Now there ae certain things called chromosomes.they ae also sometimes called genomes. Each person has 46 of them. I don’t currently know what makes up a chromosome Charlie :)
 * **Retroviruses ** - A class of viruses that can create double-stranded DNA copies of their RNA genomes. These copies of its genome can be integrated into the chromosomes of host cells. Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) is a retrovirus.
 * **Adenoviruses ** - A class of viruses with double-stranded DNA genomes that cause respiratory, intestinal, and eye infections in humans. The virus that causes the common cold is an adenovirus.
 * **Adeno-associated viruses ** - A class of small, single-stranded DNA viruses that can insert their genetic material at a specific site on chromosome 19.
 * **Herpes simplex viruses ** - A class of double-stranded DNA viruses that infect a particular cell type, neurons. Herpes simplex virus type 1 is a common human pathogen that causes cold sores.