gene therapy
Hello everyone, today I am going to talk about a new topic that I found interesting, gene therapy. But, what is it? Gene therapy is the modification and alteration of genes trying to solve an infinity of problems by modifying the genes of an individual. Lately, new methods have been developed to treat some congenital diseases or the ones in wich its cure is unlikely. Since the discovery of genetics, people has used this knowledge to improve the options of the code of life. It was first tryed in plants (area highly developed in transgenic foods) and in the present with animals and the human genome project there is talk of an emerging human research in innovative and questionable treatments from ethics. Is it necessary to sacrifice human lives for the development of therapies? Does some lives worth more than others? The answer to all of these questions were reached with the Progress of these biological technologies. The control of this knowledge and research is necessary because this is...