Which of the following is NOT true about gene therapy?
Not enough cells in the recipient may get a working copy of the gene.
Gene therapy has rarely, if ever, produced any clear successful cures.
There is some difficulty in getting a working gene into the specific cells that need it.
The organism used to transfer a "good" gene may infect the wrong cells in the recipient.
In the few cases where gene therapy produced a cure, the children of these patients were free of their parent's disease
In the few cases where gene therapy produced a cure, the children of these patients were free of their parent's disease
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