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| Dec 23, 2015 at 11:00 | comment | added | user137 | In my opinion the terms are interchangeable. The only difference I see is that "Gene Therapy" could be limited to therapeutic proteins, while "Gene Delivery" could be any gene, such as luciferase or GFP. Nuclear entry and transcription are still necessary by both, because even simple reporter genes won't do anything if they can't get into the nucleus or make mRNA. If you want to avoid nuclear uptake, look into mRNA delivery. Nuclear uptake is hard. | |
| Dec 23, 2015 at 6:12 | comment | added | aquirdturtle | So you're saying that literally the only difference is the purpose? It seemed to me (indeed, from the Wikipedia article) that Gene Therapy goes far beyond just delivery into the cell and includes the processes involved in getting the DNA into the nucleus and accepted by the host cell. | |
| Dec 23, 2015 at 6:06 | history | answered | Remi.b | CC BY-SA 3.0 |