This document discusses gene therapy, which is an experimental technique that uses genes to treat or prevent disease. It does this in one of three ways: inactivating a mutated gene, introducing a new gene to help fight disease, or replacing a mutated gene with a healthy copy. There are two main types of gene therapy - somatic gene therapy, which targets the body's cells, and germ line gene therapy, which targets egg and sperm cells. Gene delivery can be done ex vivo, by modifying cells outside the body before transplanting them back in, or in vivo by directly modifying cells in the body. Vectors are used to deliver genes into target cells, with the main types being viral vectors and non-viral vectors.