Gene

The APOE gene, located on chromosome 19, is a gene that helps in the creation of apolipoprotein E to help to form molecules called lipoproteins, this protein forms the lipo-proteins by combining with lipids in the body. By forming lipo-proteins, apolipoprotein E participates in the responsibility of managing cholesterol and carrying it, and other fats, through the bloodstream. By maintaining cholesterol, it helps to act as a prevention against disorders that can hurt the cardiovascular system,…

words of Bill Gates, a co-founder of Microsoft. Gene therapy is one of the most dynamic therapies in the medical field and most people underestimate it. Gene therapy can cure common diseases like these and it is a method that has recently brought the world to seek medical treatment in a new way. In-depth gene therapy research has been happening since the late 20th century and a recent breakthrough is allowing it to accomplish unheard of tasks. Genetic therapy has become a revolutionary medical…

deals with gene therapy related issues. According to authors, gene therapy may substitute a defective gene sequence with its perfect version and thus, can cure severe diseases. The article is mainly focused on the progress and dilemmas of gene therapy in context of hemorrhagic disorders like Hemophilia. Authors also talk about those approaches, which are linked, with gene therapy’s clinical applications (Murphy & High, 2008). The article attracted me as it is relevant with use of genes in…

These technological advances have opened doors to things that were once considered the works of science fiction. From human cloning to altering gene sequences themselves, our total control over the future of our species is rapidly approaching. The question that many ask in the wake of such power being “Is this ethical?” Some people argue that gene alteration, in any way, shape or form defies natural selection and goes against our God’s plan for the civilization. While it’s true that…

attributed to genes passed along to him or her from a parent. The fears that humans indicate they have can be seen as genetically predisposed survival tactics. "We are survival machines," Richard Dawkins writes in The Selfish Gene, "robot vehicles blindly programmed to preserve the selfish molecules known as genes” (Dee, 2010). As behaviors are practiced by humans, who survive long enough to pass on their traits, certain traits that helped them to survive are imprinted on genes. These genes are…

the cells of a patient suffering a genetic disease. Once the ‘capsule’ enters the cells of the patient, the gene is expressed by the cell’s regular machinery leading to production of the accommodating protein and treatment of the genetic disease (Yourgenome, 2016). Once the new gene reaches the nucleus of a cell it can begin to treat genetic errors and rehabilitate the DNA. Although gene therapy is a promising resolution for those suffering genetic diseases, there are many ethical controversies…

using a rate analysis and computer simulations, they found that protein evolution rate in humans, compared to that of other primates, was significantly higher in human FOXP2 (Zhang et al. 2002). This provides a potential mechanism by which the FOXP2 gene evolved differently in humans. Although their analysis was thorough and insightful, other studies with different strategies that further confirm this potential mechanism…

Gene Technology For thousands of years, Genetic modification Microorganism has affected many of the products we eat every day. It began with the tameness of animals. As humans evolved into an agricultural company, they begin breeding different strains of plants looking to receive the best possible plants for sustenance for human beings. But as a scientific understanding of breeding and technology grows, their methods of altering plants and animal changed. Instilled, of…

lot of controversy over whether gene therapy should be used. Some people want gene therapy to be used and others do not want gene therapy to be used. Some say that Gene therapy can be helpful and save lives but others say that is it right to play the hand of god and change people’s genes. The Idea of Gene therapy was first proposed in the beginning of the nineteen seventies. When the idea was first proposed they did not call it Gene Therapy instead it was called gene surgery. In nineteen eighty…

Gene therapy has been studied as a potential treatment for genetic disease since the 1980s. The goal of gene therapy is to help correct genetic disease by providing a functioning copy of the gene to make up for the genetic defect. In the laboratory a functioning copy of the gene is packaged into a lentiviral vector, this is a modified virus that acts as a transport vehicle for the functioning gene. The lentiviral vector delivers the functioning copy of the gene into stem cells taken from the…