Gene therapy. Gene therapy is the insertion of genes into an individual's cells and tissues to treat a disease, and hereditary diseases in which a defective mutant allele is replaced with a functional one. Although the technology is still in its infancy, it has been used with some success.
Best Answer: Largest electric motor is a linear motor. Made by Bombardier Corp. Used in world-wide rapid transit systems such as the one in Tokyo, Japan. Source(s): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linear_moto... The largest electric motors that I know of are on submarines and the largest one I am sure of is 5,000KW. I suspect that there are larger ones out there also. I can easily believe that the largest are on submarines.
1.) History and Inventors: 1834 - Thomas Davenport of Vermont developed the first real electric motor ('real' meaning powerful enough to do a task) although Joseph Henry and Michael Faraday created early motion devices using electromagnetic fields.