Haemophilia Treatment (Gene Therapy)

1. Pros

1.1. Able to save peoples lives

1.2. Possibly leads into other treatments to cure Hemophilia

1.3. New Information gained

1.4. Possibly helps cure other diseases

1.5. Painless

2. Sandro Hutmacher

3. Cons

3.1. Clinical trial

3.1.1. Not a definite

3.2. 1 in 5,000 have haemophilia

3.3. mainly affects males

3.4. Side affects of the therapy

3.4.1. inflammation

3.4.2. toxicity

3.4.3. possibly organ failure.

3.4.4. Viral spread damaging health tissue

3.4.5. If the gene is inserted in the wrong

3.4.6. The deactivated virus used as a vector may reactivate itself