From what I gathered from the first video, I learned that a genome is every one of the qualities in addition to some others that make up a living thing. In the first video that I watched it pretty much just explained to us know what a genome is. Our genome is the code that cells use to know how to behave. The first human genome was brought up in 2003. It took two decades to finish and it cost over three billion dollars. Our genome is the code that cells use to know how to carry on. Cells that associate together make up tissue and then tissues go on to make organs and organs make living things. The letters that make up our genome are eight to ten molecules wide and they are all pressed together into a ball.
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Cysticfibrosis impacts the lungs and pancreas and causes bodily fluid to develop in the lungs. Sofie runs pretty regulary to help clear her lungs from all the body fluid build up, The quality that makes her have this infection is the CFTR quality. We all have it, Sofie 's quality just happens to have some little changes. Sofie is interested to see whether there is or even if there will ever be a treatment for cysticfibrosis. I hope that sometime in the near future scientists and doctors can work together and somehow find a way to cure cancer and other …show more content…
Sofie then visited Dr. Adrian Thrasher to talk about gene therapy. Gene therapy consists of man made copies of healthy CF genes in a fatty liquid. It said that in gene therapy the first thing they do is they identify one gene that is not performing it’s purpose. Next they insert a healthy gene to do the job. Reese Evans was a boy that was born without an iffetive immune system and he was the first person that they decided to do gene therapy. Gene therapy is what ended up saving Reese’s life. The doctors decided to do the treatment when they couldn’t find matching bone marrow. So for treatment they removed some bone marrow and replaced it with healthy gene. Reese Evans now is enjoying living a healthy life and has a great immune system thanks to Gene Therapy. Gene therapy has saved the lifes of 20 people. Sofie went to a place to learn more about gene therapy. There they used mice to test the gene therapy. They injected a mouse that was 14 days pregnant with a gene from a jellyfish. The cells that receive it will turn bright green. The more green, the more effective it is. They hope that at some point they can inject gene’s into a unborn baby to help prevent the baby from getting the disease. Emma visited a College in London to find out if there was something that could help prevent cancer and to try and understand better the way cancer acts. A doctor
Researchers first separate it …show more content…
Cysticfibrosis impacts the lungs and pancreas and causes bodily fluid to develop in the lungs. Sofie runs pretty regulary to help clear her lungs from all the body fluid build up, The quality that makes her have this infection is the CFTR quality. We all have it, Sofie 's quality just happens to have some little changes. Sofie is interested to see whether there is or even if there will ever be a treatment for cysticfibrosis. I hope that sometime in the near future scientists and doctors can work together and somehow find a way to cure cancer and other …show more content…
Sofie then visited Dr. Adrian Thrasher to talk about gene therapy. Gene therapy consists of man made copies of healthy CF genes in a fatty liquid. It said that in gene therapy the first thing they do is they identify one gene that is not performing it’s purpose. Next they insert a healthy gene to do the job. Reese Evans was a boy that was born without an iffetive immune system and he was the first person that they decided to do gene therapy. Gene therapy is what ended up saving Reese’s life. The doctors decided to do the treatment when they couldn’t find matching bone marrow. So for treatment they removed some bone marrow and replaced it with healthy gene. Reese Evans now is enjoying living a healthy life and has a great immune system thanks to Gene Therapy. Gene therapy has saved the lifes of 20 people. Sofie went to a place to learn more about gene therapy. There they used mice to test the gene therapy. They injected a mouse that was 14 days pregnant with a gene from a jellyfish. The cells that receive it will turn bright green. The more green, the more effective it is. They hope that at some point they can inject gene’s into a unborn baby to help prevent the baby from getting the disease. Emma visited a College in London to find out if there was something that could help prevent cancer and to try and understand better the way cancer acts. A doctor