Mitochondrial Diseases Are Not The Only Diseases That Can Be Inherited From Parents

Humans have been genetically engineering organisms for nearly 10,000 years using traditional methods of modification—among these methods include selective breeding and crossbreeding. Though effective, these methods were unreliable and were only able to change certain traits. A lack of control over our genetic material proved to be a clear hindrance to our species; when harnessed, advancements in other fields of knowledge would be immeasurable. Once seen as an impossible task, scientists have been able to exploit genes and take control of them. CRISPR-Cas9 is a system that allows scientists to cleave off sections of DNA and artificially modify them by inserting a mutation into the place of the old DNA. This is exceptionally precise, whilst

Mr. and Mrs. Trosack have recently been told through chorionic villus testing, that their unborn child has Tay Sachs disease.As the case manager there should be several appropriate members identified for an interdisciplinary team to obtain information for the Trosacks ' initial visit. Those team members include, a high risk obstetrician, or perinatologist, obstetric nurses, a geneticist, a social worker, and or genetic counselor who specializes in such genetic diseases, and it would be

Can genetic engineering cure diabetes and other disease? One article is about how genetic engineering can be good for the world and help with the problems that society has. The other is about how genetic engineering is bad and society should not have it at all, and how it is not necessary and can cause difficult lifestyles. In "The Eyes of Nye- Cloning" a video clip where Bill Nye and other intellectuals talk about why genetic engineering can be good for society as well as cure disease, other doctors have been so concentrated on. The other article provided is an excerpt from the book Frankenstein by Mary Shelley and it talks about how the man has created this monster and now he regrets it, he wishes that it had not happened and that it is unnatural. Genetic engineering can be a useful because it can be a cure for disease that have yet to be found. It can also be bad because it is unnatural and against most people’s morals. Another good thing is that the U.S. does not have laws against cloning and these things can be done.

Genetic Engineering has produced an array of breakthroughs in the progression of modern medicine. Though it is faced with both ethical and potential environmental grievances, the efficacious results of Genetic Engineering counterpoise the criticisms from environmentalists. Researchers in genetics have provided simple solutions to problems that society has consistently endured. Genetic Engineering offers solutions to failing crops and heightened yields in production as well as numerous applications in medicine. It is approached by the concerns of the environmental impact of such actions, as well as the civil concern on ethics.

Human genetic engineering can save people's lives now and could save more in the future. According to a New Scientist article (Le Page, 2015), Layla was three months when she was diagnosed with acute lymphoblastic leukaemia, a kind of cancer in the bone marrow. She underwent other treatments like chemotherapy, but those failed so she underwent gene therapy by using the TALEN protein to edit her genes to produce a cancer fighting T cell called UCRAT19; She survived and thrived (Le Page 2015). Saving someone’s life through human genetic engineering doesn’t even have to be as complicated as altering genes. According to TIME Health (Park, 2014), Mya Burkhart was six months old when her parents started to look for a cure to her rare mutation in the gene for citrate. This mutation prevented certain parts of her from getting enough energy, causing breathing and development problems, and after having no luck with any other diagnosis, a genetic scan figured out what the issue was and gave her citrate supplements (Alice Park, 2014). Both Layla’s and Mya’s lives were saved because of human genetic engineering. Layla was cured of cancer because of human genetic engineering, which is one toughest diseases for humans to cure right now, while Layla’s cancer was cured, but Mya’s condition was only treated so maybe if human genetic engineering could continue a cure could be developed to improve her life.

The Gene Hackers published by the New Yorker’s Michael Specter talks about a breakthrough technology that could allow for the creation of genetically modified humans- “humans 2.0” as he calls it. This new technology could also be the cure for many genetic disorders like Alzheimer’s, Huntington’s etc. as it would allow scientist the ease of genetically identifying and editing specific genes responsible for these genetic abnormalities. This exciting new technology will be known as Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats associated protein 9 or CRISPR-Cas 9 for short.

The idea for genetically modifying the embryos of humans came along a very long time ago, back in 1993, but since then the technological side of this has exploded. The first genetic

There are many incurable diseases in the world that affect an organism’s way of living. Cystic Fibrosis, a disease with no known cure, affects 1 out of 3600 Canadian child’s digestive system and lungs, while a person with sickle cell anemia is only expected to live forty to sixty years. Both of these diseases are similar in the way that they are inherited genetically; they are passed on from parents to their children. Scientists are producing a way to help these people called Genetic Engineering. This is a way of modifying an organism’s genome to produce a more desirable trait by manually adding new DNA.

Humans have been able to use the principles of DNA replication, gene transfer and gene expression (as observed in nature) as tools to manipulate specific genes towards preferred outcomes. An advantage of being able to manipulate genetic therapy is the ability to eliminate/cure genetic disease/disorders with otherwise no other cure. Humans are able to remove the genes causing the genetic disorder from the gene pool of populations, allowing organisms to live longer and healthier lives. Two ways of manipulating genetic transfer which will be explored further in this report are selective breeding and gene therapy.

Three-parent in vitro fertilization known as three-parent IVF has caused a huge controversial debate in today society. Doctors want to be able to help prevent an inheritable disease, which is caused by defective mitochondrial DNA that is serious and life-threatening. Women are in need of the three-parent IVF procedure so their child can come out healthy. United Mitochondrial Disease Foundation in Pittsburgh, “[explain] that between 1,000 and 4,000 children are born with mitochondrial disorders in the US each year” (Brittany Shoot). Three-parent IVF procedure should be approved for use in the United States, meaning doctors who are participating in this procedure would be able to help mothers who have genetic disorder to have children.

A concept that supports the foregoing claim is the fact that genetic engineering in humans can help diminish and forestall congenital conditions. Moreover, many illnesses give individuals the demand to receive organ transplants; with organ transplants, their well-being would then be reimposed. Over one hundred and sixty thousand individuals in the United States need to receive a specific type of organ transplant named xenotransplantation, or organ transplants from other animals (Siedler 20). However, the predicament that comes with the procedure is the body’s defense mechanisms toward the foreign tissues of the animals (Siedler 20). Genetic engineering would be the resolution to this dilemma - the cardinal gene that causes the resistance could be deleted, and more human

The “three person babies” method is when a baby is created through an IVF, resulting in the child carrying genetic information from three different people. One major ethical concern about this method is that it will alter the human germ line, especially since we don’t know how effective the technology is. This is such a major concern that even former President Obama signed into a law that prevents the modification of the human germline. Many people are afraid that the mitochondrial DNA will manipulate and change the nuclear DNA. Since mitochondrial disease is one of the most common results of being a “three person baby,” scientists are excited to see how new technology might be able to prevent mitochondrial disease.

This article is about the successful research of some researchers from Oregon Health and Science University. The article said that those researchers found a way to modify the DNA of human in order to change genes that lead to a genetic heart condition. They used a technology called CRISPR, which is a gene modifying system that replaces deficient genes with healthy ones. Also, this technology could lead to the elimination of all hereditary diseases. In addition, the success of this technology is coming up with new ideas such as the possibility to make people taller, stronger, and smarter. Another aspect is that the CRISPR research is heading to the possibility to design babies. Moreover, it said that to forbid scientists from going too far

Genetic engineering may be one of the greatest inventions in recent history along with the discovery of the atom and space flight, however, governments have produced legislation to control what sort of experiments are done involving genetic engineering. In the UK there are strict laws prohibiting any experiments involving the cloning of humans. However, over the years here are some of the experimental 'breakthroughs’ made possible by genetic engineering.

Researchers have been trying to find new ways to cure disease for centuries. Gene Therapy