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Argumentative Essay: Ethics In Gene Therapy

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(ii) Ethics in Gene Therapy
According to Blau and Springer (1995), gene therapy is a newly rising approach at the end of the 20th century and aims to open new door for the treatment of various human diseases based on transfer of genetic materials to cells. The recent gene therapy research has focused on treating individuals by targeting the therapy to body cells such as bone marrow or blood cells. This type of gene therapy is not inherited and thus it cannot be passed down on to a person’s children in the future. Meanwhile, gene therapy could also be targeted to egg and sperm cells (knowns as germline gene therapy) which would allow the inserted gene to be passed on to the progeny. Germline gene therapy allows the correction of disease-causing

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