Bubble Boy Disease Popped
Kaylynn A. Foulk, Cinema and Television Arts Major, California State University, Fullerton
Abstract
This research paper explores severe combined immunodeficiency disease based from the research provided by four different articles and a book. Two of the articles were provided by the professor, but the other two articles I have researched on my own. The research paper provides a brief description of severe combined immunodeficiency disease and how it affects the immune system of a child’s body. The differences and similarities between adult stem cells and embryonic stems is provided as well. In addition, the research paper will explain why modification of stem cells are necessary and what would happen if the cells were left unmodified. Lastly, the use of embryonic stem cells being considered as controversial will be explained.
Keywords: SCID, gene therapy, embryonic stem cells
Bubble Boy Disease Popped Severe combined immunodeficiency disease is …show more content…
This modification of the gene therapy procedure mimics one originally used with some accomplishment by a discrete group of scientists. The patients who benefitted the greatest were also the youngest, as well as a baby boy, diagnosed with ADA SCID at ten months old after a major illness. Gene therapy has had slight accomplishment treating illnesses. Success has been pushed back by quite a few complications, including: problems getting working genes into the specific cells where they are needed, getting working genes into enough cells and at the right rate to produce a physiological effect, the transfer organism entering unintended cells, and regulating gene expression (Phelan 2015). Furthermore, more than one faulty gene may cause a disease, or the gene causing a disease may be
Kaylynn A. Foulk, Cinema and Television Arts Major, California State University, Fullerton
Abstract
This research paper explores severe combined immunodeficiency disease based from the research provided by four different articles and a book. Two of the articles were provided by the professor, but the other two articles I have researched on my own. The research paper provides a brief description of severe combined immunodeficiency disease and how it affects the immune system of a child’s body. The differences and similarities between adult stem cells and embryonic stems is provided as well. In addition, the research paper will explain why modification of stem cells are necessary and what would happen if the cells were left unmodified. Lastly, the use of embryonic stem cells being considered as controversial will be explained.
Keywords: SCID, gene therapy, embryonic stem cells
Bubble Boy Disease Popped Severe combined immunodeficiency disease is …show more content…
This modification of the gene therapy procedure mimics one originally used with some accomplishment by a discrete group of scientists. The patients who benefitted the greatest were also the youngest, as well as a baby boy, diagnosed with ADA SCID at ten months old after a major illness. Gene therapy has had slight accomplishment treating illnesses. Success has been pushed back by quite a few complications, including: problems getting working genes into the specific cells where they are needed, getting working genes into enough cells and at the right rate to produce a physiological effect, the transfer organism entering unintended cells, and regulating gene expression (Phelan 2015). Furthermore, more than one faulty gene may cause a disease, or the gene causing a disease may be