An Overview of Gene Therapy

Gene therapy refers to use a certain method to induct the normal gene into the target cell, in order to therapy diseases which are caused by abnormal or defective gene.
 
There are two main methods: germ cell gene therapy and somatic cell gene therapy.  Germ cell gene therapy can originally cure patients, but as many techniques, laws and ethics problems of this method it is still on an experimental level.  On the other hand, the later only changes the expression of gene, and the next generations still have the same gene problem, but it has been used on clinical level.  The techniques of these methods —- gene transfer and viral mediated transfer —- have been achieved certain success.

However, it is believed that with the development of technology, gene therapy, especially germ cell gene therapy (a thorough method), will be an acceptable and the most efficient method of hereditary diseases treatment.

A Day Full of Fun

Today, some of my friends and I went to Coogee Beach togather.  It was not too hot so we felt pretty good. 

Cool seawater was flicking my feet so as soft sands and soft foam. 

I took photoes with a pretty kid.  He’s lovely with pure blue pupils just as the same color as the sky.  I felt the happiness from him and his parents and couldn’t stop thinking of my own childhood…

My parents were busy on their work.  Nobody had spare time to share with me and I didn’t like to play with peers, so I always stayed in home by myself with some lovely cats.  ‘No body care me’ , I thought, ‘Mum love her students and Dad love the smell of disinfectant and the taste of penicillin.  Only my cats like me, but my parents always give them to their friends.  Am I adopted from other family?’  As every sensitive child I kept imagining of my original life experience about which I had no memories.

Gradually, I started to love to stay alone.  I took all my time to read classical literature and lived with the characters in those books simultaneously.  The cat which I loved most curled on the top of my knees and used her golden eyes to investigate the pages quietly.  That’s my whole childhood, the memories with books and cats.

When my parents awared that I communicated with them less and less and trid to open my heart, that was too late.  They found they couldn’t understand me and when I talked about what I liked but they knew nothing about it.  They didn’t know anything about Wuthering Heights, Pride and Prejudice, Les Misérables or Cynicism and Idealism.  Though they wanted to know clearly what I was thinking of and I told them, they still had no idea.  After I graduate from middle school, I got some knowledge of biology and then found some common topics with my Dad.

Now, I live by myself, no relatives in the same city, but I never feel lonely even though sometimes I miss my family, miss the feelings of living with my parents.  I’ve used to living alone when I was a little girl and can take care of myself very well, so my family have confidence in my ability of independence.  I never tell them what happened even so sometimes I also want a shoulder to cry on…

Love Story

As every girl in nineteen, I dream one day, my prince will arrive, taking me to enjoy the seawind under sunset…

In March, 12, 2004, I said to him suddenly, ‘I like you either.’  He felt extremely embarrased and asked, ‘Why, I can’t believe…’  I interrupted, ‘No reason.’  In the rest of the year, he kept asking me the same question, and I gave the same answer every time. 

When I left alone, I ask myself, ‘Why you said you like him even though you have known you are totally different and there’s no future for you eventually?’  However, from beginning to end I couldn’t find the answer.  I know clearly he fell in love with me much more than I did and tried his best to change himself to satify me, otherwise I would have kissed him and say goodbye much more earlier.  He said, ‘Don’t go, please!  I can’t breath without you!’  I said nothing.  I just tried to keep my mind and to pursue my willing life.  Am I selfish?  Am I cruel?  When his tear fell down slowly mixed with rain, I knew how hurt he was, but I could only say sorry…

My life go back to calm.  I go to beaches and let the seawater soak my tied feet.  What are you doing now in anther hemisphere?  In any case, I wouldn’t forget before I turnt away, in a glance of my eyes, the desparate expression of you. 

You are uneasy, childish, vivacious and lively meanwhile your talent of mathematics and sports astonishes me.  You look at me for a long time, say gentlely, ‘You are enticing, you are a labyrinth…”  Form your eyes with deep feelings,  I read your care of me.  I can’t stay with you, but my heart will.  You baffle me too much despite you give me lots of laughters.  We are people who come from different ways and will go on to different ways definitely…

Is it a tragic love story without any ending?