Within modern Genetics
An international scientific research project, Human Genome Project, was declared complete in 2003. It remains the world's largest collaborative biological project, identified and mapped all the genes in the human genome. In the past twenty years, research, techniques, and knowledge in genetics have widely expanded, benefiting from the Human Genome Project and other major advances in discovery research and diagnostic technologies (Hawkins). For example, genetic screening, the diagnosis of inherited and genetic defects, is prospective to be applied in eugenics (Ashley). The current technics are able to provide vast information prenatally, with the procedure known as Preimplantation Genetic Diagnosis (Worldpress.org). Thousands of the children in the United States have already been born from embryos being tested for a number of genetic traits, created via In Vitro Fertilization (Worldpress.org).
These developments possess infinite potential; furthermore, they raise significant challenges in the practical application towards the genetic testing and services (Hawkins). Because of the lack of access to …show more content…
Issues concerning confidentiality and human rights that result from scientific advances must be addressed by society. For example, identical twins remind people about cloning. Since the twins are two individual human beings, whether soul plays a role in the cloned creatures becomes a question then. As long as scientists cannot observe a soul since no one has virtually seen a soul, there is no method to study it. Up to now, cloning human beings have not been accepted in the society in any case. Science-fictional movies regarding the possible situation when the cloning of human beings reaches an extensive use have promoted panic in public towards many unrelated genetics
An international scientific research project, Human Genome Project, was declared complete in 2003. It remains the world's largest collaborative biological project, identified and mapped all the genes in the human genome. In the past twenty years, research, techniques, and knowledge in genetics have widely expanded, benefiting from the Human Genome Project and other major advances in discovery research and diagnostic technologies (Hawkins). For example, genetic screening, the diagnosis of inherited and genetic defects, is prospective to be applied in eugenics (Ashley). The current technics are able to provide vast information prenatally, with the procedure known as Preimplantation Genetic Diagnosis (Worldpress.org). Thousands of the children in the United States have already been born from embryos being tested for a number of genetic traits, created via In Vitro Fertilization (Worldpress.org).
These developments possess infinite potential; furthermore, they raise significant challenges in the practical application towards the genetic testing and services (Hawkins). Because of the lack of access to …show more content…
Issues concerning confidentiality and human rights that result from scientific advances must be addressed by society. For example, identical twins remind people about cloning. Since the twins are two individual human beings, whether soul plays a role in the cloned creatures becomes a question then. As long as scientists cannot observe a soul since no one has virtually seen a soul, there is no method to study it. Up to now, cloning human beings have not been accepted in the society in any case. Science-fictional movies regarding the possible situation when the cloning of human beings reaches an extensive use have promoted panic in public towards many unrelated genetics