Penicillin is used as an antibiotic drug to treat many bacterial infections including Streptococcus pneumonia, H. influenza, E. coli, and more (). Penicillin is naturally grown from a mold, but making the antibiotic can be tedious naturally. To enhance production of penicillin, scientist has genetically modified a strand bacterium that can produce penicillin more efficiently. What they do is introduce a gene that produces the antibiotic into the DNA of a bacterium that grows quite rapidly (). Innovation like that treats, and in some cases saves millions of lives battling with bacterial infections. Overall the uses of GMOs for medicine can be endless. In addition, scientist also created a strand of corn to help prevent kids from going blind. In many regions of the world, children lack essential nutrients for normal growth. Children with insufficient vitamin B in their diets causes 500,000 kids go blind every year (). To help fight this epidemic, a synthesized strand of corn was created using biotechnology. To create the genetically modified corn, scientist used a similar method that is used to make penicillin. First they placed a gene that makes beta-carotene into the DNA of the host. Once consumed beta-carotene in the body, digestion breaks beta-carotene into vitamin B. Then the offspring with the desired trait is selective chosen to produce more (). Both of applications help improve millions of lives. Further research is needed to someday cure more people or treat life treating
Penicillin is used as an antibiotic drug to treat many bacterial infections including Streptococcus pneumonia, H. influenza, E. coli, and more (). Penicillin is naturally grown from a mold, but making the antibiotic can be tedious naturally. To enhance production of penicillin, scientist has genetically modified a strand bacterium that can produce penicillin more efficiently. What they do is introduce a gene that produces the antibiotic into the DNA of a bacterium that grows quite rapidly (). Innovation like that treats, and in some cases saves millions of lives battling with bacterial infections. Overall the uses of GMOs for medicine can be endless. In addition, scientist also created a strand of corn to help prevent kids from going blind. In many regions of the world, children lack essential nutrients for normal growth. Children with insufficient vitamin B in their diets causes 500,000 kids go blind every year (). To help fight this epidemic, a synthesized strand of corn was created using biotechnology. To create the genetically modified corn, scientist used a similar method that is used to make penicillin. First they placed a gene that makes beta-carotene into the DNA of the host. Once consumed beta-carotene in the body, digestion breaks beta-carotene into vitamin B. Then the offspring with the desired trait is selective chosen to produce more (). Both of applications help improve millions of lives. Further research is needed to someday cure more people or treat life treating