Genetic Engineering: Far Outweigh The Risks

Genetic engineering is currently the fastest growing and perhaps most controversial field of science. Genetic engineering is decoding and manipulating DNA to use for scientific and medical purposes. "The discovery that human cells can be grown in a petri dish has opened up breathtaking possibilities for curing disease - and a morass of ethical complications" (Allen 9).

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.

Granted there have been other gene editing techniques used before, but by far CRISPR has been reported to have the most potential to revolutionize different areas where the method is applicable. The fields that researchers believe these modification resources will be the most beneficial, include but are not limited to medicine for curing and preventing diseases, creating socially ideal children, and perhaps aiding in the decrease of world hunger. While these goals do seem quite optimistical, scientists have high hopes for what CRISPR will be able to accomplish with time. Currently the system is just now being tested out on living organisms, with the ambition of figuring ways to genetically terminate diseases (2).

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CRISPR cas9 should continue to advance in the science world because “UC Berkeley researchers have made a major improvement in CRISPR-Cas9 technology that achieves an unprecedented success rate of 60 percent when replacing a short stretch of DNA with another”(Antonio Carusillo, PhD Candidate in Genetic Engineering (Marie Curie) at University of Freiburg (2018-present). This statistic shows that there is more of a chance to success but there is a chance to fail 40 percent but overall it will succeed which is why people are lenient about will it actually work or not, but as technology get better so will treatments to cure hard to pinpoint disease such as cancer, zika, or leukemia. Genome editing (also called gene editing) is a group of technologies that give scientists the ability to change an organism's DNA. These technologies allow genetic material to be added, removed, or altered at particular locations in the genome. Several approaches to genome editing have been developed. A recent one is known as CRISPR-Cas9, which is short for clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats and CRISPR-associated protein. The CRISPR-Cas9 system has generated a lot of excitement in the scientific community because it is faster, cheaper, more accurate, and more efficient than other existing genome editing methods (yin, steph.What Is CRISPR/Cas9 and Why Is It Suddenly Everywhere? published april 30,

Genetic engineering is the process of manipulating genes by adding new DNA or modifying the genome (which is a made of DNA) to add new beneficial traits in that organism using biotechnology. It removes the DNA from one organism and transfers into another organism. This changes the actions of the genes to serve human goals. DNA plays a huge role in this process. It contains human’s unique genetic code and also hold the instruction to make the proteins in the body.

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Scientists know exactly what genes have certain diseases and they know how to fix them and get rid of the disease altogether. In 2014, a graduate student organization at Harvard University called Science in the News published an article about CRISPR, an organization of DNA in the genome of bacteria, that stated that, “If a viral infection threatens a bacterial cell, the CRISPR immune system can thwart the attack by destroying the genome of the invading virus” (CRISPR). This new tool is crucial part of the immune system which destroys the bacteria’s genome to prevent replication of the disease. By inventing this new tool, scientists can finally save people and cure them without having to do painful treatment like chemotherapy. It also can grant new and possible opportunities to people who found out too late that they had complications. In the article “Genetically Modified Babies” written by Marcy Darnovsky that was published by the The New York Times in 2014 states that, “Developers of these modification techniques say they are a way for women with diseases to give birth to healthy

been genetically engineered in the hope of curing malaria. Malaria is spread to approximately 200

Over the past few decades genetic engineering has caused plenty of controversy not only in politics, but as well as in science and the lives of everyday people. Controversy is not new to this subject, in fact it has a rich history of it, from cloning to patenting several types of DNA. Some scientist in this field even oppose this subject. While there are many cons in this subject such as people taking advantage over the technology, there are also a lot of pros that come out of it and has helped society such as creating cures for diseases that are not yet curable today. This paper will not only present the pros and cons of genetic engineering, but also part of the history and the basic principles and concepts behind it.

Genetic Engineering has been controversial for many years. But, so far genetic engineering has been very advantageous for human evolution. Genetic engineering is a term often misunderstood. The term means to direct manipulation of an organism's genes using biotechnology. It is a set of technologies used to change the genetic makeup of cells, including the transfer of genes within and across species boundaries to produce improved or novel organisms. This recent exploration has been a breakthrough in the agriculture industry, as well as the knowledge on scientists end, that has been gained by conducted research. As I elaborate further into this argumentative piece, it will sustain that recent scientific development make it possible for medicinal procedures to aim at the focal point of genetically related diseases, while potentially contributing lucid treatments.

Cloning, landmine sensing plants, and fish that glow in the dark, are all realities when it comes to the possibilities of genetic engineering. Genetic engineering is the artificial modification of an organisms genetic material with the help of biotechnology. This is capable of producing traits in an organism that would never have occurred by naturally. Genetic engineering is possible because genes are a universal language in life. Genes from one organism can be put in another organism, the possibilities for genetic engineering are essentially endless (Dixon, 2013). Any organism that has been altered through means of genetic engineering is referred to a GMO or genetically modified organism. Genetic engineering is similar to breeding, but at the same time much different. Genes are being selected for the same ways animals like dogs would be bred, however, with selective breeding the same species are used and people are naturally selecting certain observable phenotypes and breeding the two organisms to attempt to produce a desired result (Dixon, 2013). With genetic engineering, genes can be artificially altered and genes from a variety of species can all be woven into one organism (Dixon, 2013). Therefore, with genetic engineering having potentially no limits, the only real constraints are scientists imaginations and also moral and ethical concerns.

As biotechnologists have learned how to interpret and manipulate genetic code, they have begun to take the useful genetic information from one organism and add it to another. This has become the groundwork of genetic engineering, or synthetic biology. It has allowed researchers to

Is there really a perfect human race? Some people think there could be with the help of human engineering. There is a notion that genetic engineering is the solution to all human defects, and that it is the perfect resolution to parents being able to have the perfect families that they have always wanted. This sounds amazing! Although genetic engineering sounds fantastic there are many downsides, not only morally but potentially health wise also. This practice is risky because there could be horrendous side effects that come with the treatment when it is used on embryos. It is almost unacceptable morally, it violates specific human rights of the human embryos, it allows people to play God, it creates an illusion of perfection within families, it could create a large social divide, and it shows how shallow humans are. Genetic engineering might not be all it is cracked up to be.

Genetic engineering is the process of modifying the DNA of an organism to improve its functioning, or to benefit the human species. This broad term can apply to diagnosing and curing diseases, developing new vaccines, and more controversially, manufacturing animal and food products. A less well-known fact is that genetic engineering has been around since approximately 8000 BCE with the domestication of plants, according to experts from National Geographic. Through time, humans have had an ever-increasing effect on the natural world, and recent strides in genetic technology have shifted the primary focus from artificial selection in the wheat fields to growing virus-resistant rat embryos in research laboratories. The possibilities are seemingly endless, but there are many ethical and health concerns associated with this practice as a result.