BoSox
05-23-2011, 06:19 PM
Correct me if I'm wrong. If they locate whatever "gene" that is causing a certain disease, can't they fix it by gene therapy? Didn't they discover the gene that causes hair loss few years ago?
Correct me if I'm wrong. If they locate whatever "gene" that is causing a certain disease, can't they fix it by gene therapy? Didn't they discover the gene that causes hair loss few years ago?
What Histogen is doing is a form of gene therapy, using proteins to stimulate certain intracellular pathways to induce new hair follicles - sounds cool - gene therapy in general is very very... very complicated - the net result of some types of gene therapy have been tragic - there are millions of knock-on effects that can occur by just altering some genes in the human body, finding which genes have been affected is like trying to search for a needle in a haystack blindfolded whilst wearing boxing gloves.