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 to manage life from how we know it, and puts ourselves in the balance of whether we should be the species that rises and seeks to manipulate the natural flow as "gods". I would like to know what you think about the aforementioned and if you consider it ethically correct.