The Human Genome Project has been a hot button topic since the initial draft was created in 1999. The creation of gene manipulation has raised a multitude of complex questions, and it leaves many more unanswered. Henry Greely, the director of the center of law and biosciences, thinks that the human race is not mentally equipped enough to begin experimentation on the Human Genome in his article “Legal, Ethical, and Social Issues in Human Genome Research”. Johannes Borgstein, agrees with him in his article “The Poetry of Genetics”. Kathy Hudson, The deputy director for Science, Outreach, and Policy at the National Institutes of Health, has seen what the scientific community can do, when fully committed. Hudson hopes to see the scientific community
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Leaps of faith cannot occur within the scientific community without being led by all the questions answered, and all of the answers questioned. With the theoretical advancement of gene mutation and manipulation, certain questions will need to be answered, for example: “If society allows prenatal testing for genetic diseases, who defines ‘disease’?” (Greely 480). In today’s human population, people can only ever agree on one thing, and that is to fight.The Human Genome project would bring more conflict into this world than it would solve, mankind will answer questions like these, before those kinds of advancements are made. Today’s scientific …show more content…
There are examples of such an undertaking being taken on by the scientific community as a whole, such as what Kathy Hudson says here: “The remarkable thing sociologically- and I do hope somebody studies this at some point- was taking a group people who had been natural competitors, and to see a transition from competition, to them working together and working in a very organized and systematic effort to get the working draft of the human genome completed” (369). The unification of the scientists of the world was a wonder to see, in 15 months a working draft of The Human Genome had been completed. Similar efforts are needed to fully complete the understanding of The Human Genome’s sequence and patterns.Next to nothing is known about the genetic alphabet, Johannes Borgstein agrees by saying: “The expression of genetic code may be thus viewed as as a language with almost limitless possibilities of expression within the framework of a fixed alphabet (four base pairs and a zero making five possible symbols?) and structured grammar” (540). The genetic alphabet can be learned, however the necessary tools and knowledge of the topic are not great enough. Both authors think the scientific community lacks the know-how, the technology, or the same kind of commitment that was shown during the early stages of The
Leaps of faith cannot occur within the scientific community without being led by all the questions answered, and all of the answers questioned. With the theoretical advancement of gene mutation and manipulation, certain questions will need to be answered, for example: “If society allows prenatal testing for genetic diseases, who defines ‘disease’?” (Greely 480). In today’s human population, people can only ever agree on one thing, and that is to fight.The Human Genome project would bring more conflict into this world than it would solve, mankind will answer questions like these, before those kinds of advancements are made. Today’s scientific …show more content…
There are examples of such an undertaking being taken on by the scientific community as a whole, such as what Kathy Hudson says here: “The remarkable thing sociologically- and I do hope somebody studies this at some point- was taking a group people who had been natural competitors, and to see a transition from competition, to them working together and working in a very organized and systematic effort to get the working draft of the human genome completed” (369). The unification of the scientists of the world was a wonder to see, in 15 months a working draft of The Human Genome had been completed. Similar efforts are needed to fully complete the understanding of The Human Genome’s sequence and patterns.Next to nothing is known about the genetic alphabet, Johannes Borgstein agrees by saying: “The expression of genetic code may be thus viewed as as a language with almost limitless possibilities of expression within the framework of a fixed alphabet (four base pairs and a zero making five possible symbols?) and structured grammar” (540). The genetic alphabet can be learned, however the necessary tools and knowledge of the topic are not great enough. Both authors think the scientific community lacks the know-how, the technology, or the same kind of commitment that was shown during the early stages of The