Genetic Therapy Research Paper

What if doctors could use your own body to cure your own disorders? Genetic therapy and engineering is now only starting to be experimented with, and is popularly portrayed as science fiction with medical ethic issues. But in reality genetic therapy and engineering is the forefront of medicine because not only can genetics help cure pre-existing conditions, but also genetic engineering in utero can eliminate disorders such as Down syndrome and cystic fibrosis. I would love to explore the field of genetic therapy and engineering to help cure people with pre-existing genetic disorders and also to better the future by preventing parents and children from having to go through the struggles of living with disorders, that with the assistance of genetic therapy, can be preventable.
Genetic therapy and engineering use genes from the patient to rehabilitate the body from disorders like sickle cell anemia. In my high school biology class, my teacher briefly touched on the subject that one day gene therapy might be able to completely eradicate genetic disorders. Since then genetic therapy has fascinated me on how the human body is able to use itself to cure its own disorders. But as I researched it I grew more fascinated by the possibly of curing disorders before a child has been born. I would like to see careers in gene therapy …show more content…
Some believe that it is not morally correct to change the genetic makeup of their children and they should just let God decide what happens. But God has given us the science to better the lives of our children by not making them or their parents suffer through a life changing genetic disorder such as muscular dystrophy which would last a life time with no cure. So therefore it would better the lives of not only the child but also the parents, if the child’s disorder, such as muscular dystrophy, was eradicated while the child was in the