What are CAR T cell therapy, RNA therapy, and other genetic therapies?: MedlinePlus Genetics - Health Journal Online

What are CAR T cell therapy, RNA therapy, and other genetic therapies?: MedlinePlus Genetics - Health Journal Online

Several treatments have been developed that involve genetic material but are typically not considered gene therapy. Some of these methods alter DNA for a slightly different use than gene therapy. Others do not alter genes themselves, but they change whether or how a gene’s instructions are carried out to make proteins. Cell-based gene therapy CAR T cell therapy (or chimeric antigen receptor T cell therapy) is an example of cell-based gene therap…