What is the difference between gene therapy and CRISPR?

Gene therapy is a broad strategy for curing or treating disease by modifying, supplying or blocking genes or gene products that cause a condition either by their presence or absence. read more

Gene therapy is any attempt to edit genes to cure some disease. CRISPR/Cas9 is a method of editing DNA. CRISPR could be used for gene therapy (or for any other gene editing attempts), and gene therapy could be done with any of several other methods. read more

CRISPR/Cas9 is a method of genome editing. CRISPR used for gene therapy (or for any other gene editing attempts), and gene therapy could be done with any of several other methods. read more

Gene-editing techniques based on synthetic nucleases and transcription factors have enabled the targeted modification of gene sequence and expression. They have been used to directly targeted gene addition for therapeutic purposes, knock out genes associated with diseases and correct pathogenic mutations. read more