The most appealing thing about genetic engineering to me is about human diseases and how they are treated by being cloned. How is the disease formed? or maybe How is the disease fixed? However, I never expected a scientist to manually removed someone's disease by cloning.
Better yet, genetic engineering helps scientists provide people with certain genes that they lack. For example, in 1990 a young girl had a disease to the lack of ONE single gene. Easily fixable, the scientist withdrew some blood from the girl, copied the gene she was missing and inserted it into her white blood cells. Click here for a quick video on gene therapy. To learn more about Genetic Engineering, click here.
Association of Reproductive Health Proffessionals, ARHP. (n.d.). Human cloning and genetic modification. Retrieved from http://www.arhp.org/publications-and-resources/patient-resources/printed-materials/cloning
Levine, L. (2011). Genetic Engineering. Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia. Retrieved April 15, 2011, from Grolier Online http://gme.grolier.com/article?assetid=0117820-0
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