The Pros And Cons Of The Human Genome Project

Advancement in the area of science and technology has always created a buzz in our world. Our world runs on the belief that scientific discoveries or breakthrough will one by one rid of diseases and illnesses that is trying to harm human life, but it also runs on technology, from people’s need of energy/electricity for light to people’s addiction to smartphone, internet, and need of Wi-Fi. The advancement in both areas would have not been possible without the help of each other; the breakthroughs in science became easier, faster, and accurate due to the advancement and innovations in scientific machinery that aided in the breakthroughs in science area. In the last two decades, there have been numerous of advancements in both of the area, but one invention that caught my attention was invented in the April of 2003, The Human Genome Project. The Human genome project has been around for two decades, since its initiation and sponsored by the National Human Genome Research Institute.
The Human genome project is created to understand each and every gene, DNA, and change human genetics by researching as many human genes. As …show more content…
The most important part of such research is that it should be ethical. There are many research facilities who would consider this unethical, just playing around with human genes and altering it should be considered to be unnatural. As we know religious organizations will always be opposing such research that temper with our human soul and body. Another disadvantage is the issues of privacy, sharing the private information about humans and their genes could a dangerous risk if it got onto a wrong hand according to the type of interests they have. Lastly, the implications of the human genome project could be just like any other research that has been in progress ever since it started might go on for a long time without any positive