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    has been debating over how to use this new power in their hands. Germline gene therapy is a form of genetic engineering that involves transferring DNA into reproductive cells to treat disease, so that the inserted gene will be passed onto future generations. There is currently much controversy over this topic and whether…

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    Even though gene therapy has existed for a while, its acceptance has been slower than most people had anticipated. This is regardless of the fact that this therapy is helpful in curing terminal diseases like cancer. These six sources provide me with different perspectives that will allow me to support the thesis of my paper and has given me an insight on the issue of gene therapy. It is clear that gene therapy has not received the attention it deserves mostly because of ethical and economic…

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    Cons Of Gene Therapy

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    Gene therapy is a very risky process. The risks can sometimes out way the pros. Some people are really sick and need to have these things done to increase their quality of life. Why wouldn’t you want to increase your quality of life? At the same time, some people are using gene therapy to make physical changes to themselves. For example, making themselves stronger or smarter. Do you really think you’re going to spontaneously know more by getting a gene that makes you smarter. According to…

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    Gene Therapy

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    Despite early failures that dismissed gene therapy as a viable means to treat disease and genetic disorder, decades of research have resulted in the development of safe and effective vectors, methods of targeting particular types of cells, and techniques to minimize and manage immune responses. In the process, scientist now know more about the disease-causing genes themselves than ever before, paving the way for the development of successful gene therapy treatments. As of now, people have been…

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    Gene Therapy Pros And Cons

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    reforms by each country. Gene therapy has also been noted that critics view gene therapy as the ability to “play god” which has the potential of leading to human cloning (“6 Monumental Pros and Cons of Gene Therapy”). On the other hand, health organizations around the world deemed it illegal to practice germline sterilizations in children or possible offspring’s. Heretofore, the FDA’s guidelines…

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    Fix: Gene Therapy and the Boy Who Saved It, Ricki Lewis pens a narrative science focused on the milestones in the history of gene therapy, not just one success story (Lewis, 2012). Corey Haas, the boy who regained his vision after being sentenced to a life of blindness, is only one of the medical miracles mentioned; the book also devotes itself to presenting the theory and procedures behind gene therapy. As a supplement to the curriculum of the AP Biology course, the major biological concept of…

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    Gene Therapy Ethics

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    Gene therapy held many possible promises when found in the beginning of the 1990’s. “Gene therapy was the answer to what ailed us” (The Gene Hunters). Gene therapy is defined as, “The application of genetic engineering to the transplantation of gene into human cells in order to cure a disease caused by a genetic defect, as a missing enzyme” (Dictionary.com, 2005). This special field of medicine still holds promise for treating some types of genetic diseases, instead of just discovering their…

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    Gene Therapy Essay

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    successfully completed in 2003 (National Human Genome Institute, 2014). This project allowed scientists to understand the “sequences that make up the human DNA” (Moss, 2014, p.155) and map out almost all the genes in the human genome, as well as acquiring an excess amount of information. As a result, gene therapy was introduced to prevent or decrease the effects of diseases by replacing…

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    Gene Therapy Disadvantages

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    Gene Therapy: The concept of gene therapy emerged in the 1970s. The basic premise of gene therapy is using DNA enclosed in a vector as a therapeutic treatment for diseases. In the decades after it was conceptualized, many clinical trials of gene therapy were developed but stalled in phase I or phase II. During the 90s, only 1% of gene therapy trials made it to phase III and none of them went past phase III. The excitement for gene therapy was reduced when a participant of a clinical trial died…

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    The “Bubble Boy” gene therapy experiment is one of the experiments on gene therapy. Gene therapy is still a moral debate to this day, some people beg the question if it’s okay to use gene therapy or what would it do to the human body which are all great questions. The discussion will be on whether the “Bubble Boy” gene therapy experiment was ethical or not and if the treatment was worth the risk. Basically the “Bubble Boy” experiment was on children suffering from the bubble boy disease which…

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