Gene therapy 基因治疗
(重定向自Genetic enhancement)
Gene therapy is the therapeutic delivery of nucleic acid polymers into a patient's cells as a drug to treat disease.
The origins of gene therapy can be traced back to the first live attenuated vaccines in the 1950s. Although attenuated vaccines do not alter extant human genes, viruses are RNA polymers with their own genetic code that acts upon human cells, thus live vaccines can be considered a primitive form of gene therapy, albeit not in the sense that is generally implied today.