Gene therapy

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Gene therapy
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The problem we plan to solve is How can
nanotechnology be used to cure diseases?
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This can be done with gene therapy, a process
which uses viruses to help humans.
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• This is a bacteriophage, a virus that infects
  bacteria. Each bacteria can only infect certain
  cells, depending on which protein is on the
  bacteria

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• The virus will attach to one of the bacterias
  proteins

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• The virus then inserts its DNA or RNA into
  the bacteria. The DNA or RNA tells the bacteria
  to reproduce the virus.

These little lumps are the proteins
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Our team thinks that if you modified the viruses
R.N.A. so that it would attack disease causing
bacteria, you would have something that would rid
you of the bad bacteria and produce more of
itself at the same time.
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This would be very inexpensive because you would
just need to reproduce one of the modified
viruses and insert the many you have into people.
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How does nanotechnology relate to this?D.N.A.
has a width of 3 nm.Youd need a really small
tool to fiddle with that!
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