Scientists have claimed that they have done a breakthrough in treating genetic disorder by using both stem cell and gene therapy combined and found succeeded in their initial stage.

So far, genetic disorders could not be treated with stem cells created from the patient himself since the stem cells taken from the patient itself will contain the corrupted genetic code.

But now scientists believe that the stem cells taken from the patient who is having the genetic disorder could treat the disease by this new discovery but they said that they have more steps before devising treatment and its safety.

Scientists at the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute and the University of Cambridge who are working in the breakthrough took liver cirrhotic disease.

They have taken skin cells from a patient and they turned them in to stem cells and repaired the genetic information and then finally transplanted it into mice and found the cells transplanted were started functioning normally as of a normal human liver cell.

This cirrhotic liver disease is one of the common disease that affects one 2000 people in Europe and until now, the disease is rectified only by transplanting the liver.

The stem cells were then turned into liver cells. One of the lead researchers, Prof David Lomas, said: “They functioned beautifully with normal secretion and function”.