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The Search For Cures

            
             In today's society some of the most fatal diseases are afflicting humans throughout the world.
             Medical researchers are constantly fighting against these diseases to find a cure. Eventually over .
             time and diligence medical researchers will be able to cure all major ailments. Some of these diseases.
             will be cured by gene therapy, the use of umbilical cord cells and the discoveries of new surgery .
             techniques. With new techniques of treating diseases medical researchers are a step closer to finding .
             cures for all ailments. Medical researchers will eventually find cures for all the major ailments this .
             is true because of gene therapy, the use of umbilical cords cells and new surgery techniques. .
             .
             Medical researchers will cure some of the major diseases by gene therapy. Gene therapy is .
             a method to replace a malfunctioning gene with a new healthy gene. In an article, two infants with .
             a different form of the immune system disease were reported successfully taking this treatment without .
             any retreatment or supplemental injections of the missing protein (Cures 2). The physicians were able .
             to treat a rare disease and cure the patients without retreatment. Since the new techniques of gene .
             therapy have improved, it was able to create a successful treatment to cure a disease. Cancer cells .
             are being treated by gene therapy to restore a missing gene called apoptosis. Apoptosis is a process.
             when a cell ends its existence which many cancer cells have lost (Cures 4). Once researchers find a .
             way to restore this gene they will be able to cure cancer. However, identifying the missing gene is a .
             long and difficult task. Medical researchers have cured some diseases and are on their way to discover .
             the missing genes by gene therapy. In brief, gene therapy is a new method for researchers to cure all .
             major diseases.
             Over the recent years, researchers have discovered using umbilical cord cells could cure some major illness.


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