Understanding Gene Therapy

What is gene therapy? How are genes delivered? Which diseases can be treated? What is the status of current clinical trials? What are the ethical issues? What are the future prospects? Understanding Gene Therapy answers all these questions and more, providing an ideal introduction to this complex and rapidly developing field. Written and edited by leading experts, the book provides a highly readable and comprehensive overview of the subject and is clearly and simply illustrated in two colors throughout. Understanding Gene Therapy is a suitable introductory text for medical students and clinicians, and essential reading for genetics students, and researchers.