Fanconi anemia

Life is a game of chance, and reproduction is no exception. Whenever a woman and a man create a child, there is always a risk of some form of genetic disorder caused by one parent being a carrier. However, with advances in technology made in the past decade, there is a way to ensure that a child does not have a disease that his or her parent carries. Even though this process is intended for good use, there are ethical misuses, just as there are with other medical procedures (Dresser 1). Although…

Molly Nash was born with a rare condition called Fanconi anemia that negatively affects her red blood cell count. The only chance she had to survive was for her parents, who wanted to have more children but feared to conceive due to the probability that this child would also suffer from this hereditary condition, to have another child. The placenta from this birth was used as part of a blood transfusion in order to save Molly’s life. The procedure was ultimately a success and Molly’s life has…

An estimate of 24,090 deaths occur each year due to leukemia. An estimate of 52,380 new cases are diagnosed each year. In 2014, 52,380 people were diagnosed with leukemia. Leukemia is one of the most deadly forms of cancer, taking the lives of both the young and the old. Leukemia is the tenth most common type of cancer occurring in all races or ethnicities. Acute leukemia develops fast, but chronic leukemia develops more slowly. It causes almost one third of all cancer deaths in children today,…

Acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) is a malignant disorder affecting children and adults, peaking between the ages of 2 and 5 years old then rising slowly after the age of 50 (Pui, Robison, & Look, 2008). While effective treatments have raised the cure rate to over 80%, ALL remains the second leading cause of death from cancer in children (Mullighan et al., 2009). There are about 6,250 new cases of ALL with about 1,450 deaths, mainly affecting more males than females and more whites than African…

Speaking of being in control of something or someone who matters, people will describe such behaviors from two completely different points of views. Specifically, as people who subjectively involve in controlling, they would satisfy with the feeling of managing their lives, and even become used to having their surroundings managed; for people who are being constrained or who play the role of outsiders, they would become uncomfortable with people who tell others to do something, and even generate…

1.2 Cellular DNA Damage responses, genomic instability. DNA is the blue print of life and all the information of life processes such as growth, metabolism, reproduction etc are encoded in the sequence of it. Therefore its very important to maintain the genomic integrity of this genetic material, not only to keep away defects in life processes but to pass a faithful information to the next progeny. Integrity of the DNA is usually challenged by both endogenous and exogenous agents who are capable…

Selection of a child's genetic characteristics has affected nation's worldwide. This moral-ethical issued topic has transformed many people's opinions on whether to alter their future children's genetic makeup or not. Designer babies started off as a science fiction concept. However, due to rapid increases in technology advances, genetic selection has become possible all over the world. Now when, where, and how did it start is the question as of right now. Genetic Selection is the process by…

2000. Doctors used screening procedures to test the embryos of Lisa and Jack Nash. The doctors picked out the embryos that would be a precise cell match to their existing daughter Molly (Agar pg.1). Molly suffers from a genetic condition called Fanconi Anemia which causes a bone marrow deficiency. The embryo selected did not carry the disease and was a perfect tissue match. As a result, their healthy son Adam was born in August after Mrs. Nash had gone through four rounds of IVF cycles. Stem…