NEET Biology question
When a person with defective Adenosine Deaminase (ADA) was treated, which of the following steps were performed for gene therapy? I. Lymphocytes were extracted from the bone marrow of the patient II. Lymphocytes were grown in a culture outside the body III. Lymphocytes were transfected with normal ADA genes IV. The transfected cells were returned to the patient
Answer: (D)
Solution
ADA-SCID gene therapy proceeds through exactly these four sequential steps — extracting the patient's lymphocytes, culturing them outside the body, transfecting them with a
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