1. Name: Christine Chiang
Genetic Technology One-World Essay
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2. Gene Therapy – One World Essay
27th 09 2010
By: Christine Chiang
Gene therapy refers to the gene technology, scientist are planning to do
a lot of experiment to develop the gene therapy to useable for everyone in the
future. However, for now scientists are trying to inject genes directly into
human cells, but only focusing on the wide range of diseases, including those
resist conventional treatment, foe examples, cystic fibrosis, haemophilia,
muscular dystrophy and sickle cell anemia. There are many important points
that people should go through before the gene therapy has developed too much.
The application of science, the benefits and limitations, and the one world issues
are going to be the three main topics that this essay tells about, which helps
people into a better understanding of the gene therapy.
The process of doing gene therapy is very complicated and in the
technology today it still carries out a number of dangers. Even though it carries
out some danger such
as, leukemia, but there
are still some causes
that doctors suggest
people to use gene
therapy for treatment
during these days.
Normally doctors
suggest the sickness
to use gene therapy
only when they are in
a very bad condition,
where there are no
other better choices.
Gene therapy requires
Figure 1: Admin ( 25th Sept 2010)
a gene delivery
system, which is able to
This is a diagram showing how does a vector
transfer the gene to carry DNA to the body. the
patient’s cells. First, the
gene therapy is done by taking out the cell for the patient’s body that includes
defective allele in it. Then the scientists needed inject normal allele back in to
the patient’s body, but in order for the body to accept the gene, scientists usually
need a carrier for introducing the DNA to the body. Those carriers are known as
vectors. So far there are only 4 different types of vectors that can be used for
gene therapy, retrovirus, adenovirus, liposome, and naked DNA. The scientists
need to make a copy of normal people’s allele, insert with the DNA, which
become recombinant DNA, and then insert it into the viral vector. After that the
cells that include defective allele are infected with virus containing the
recombinant DNA. Moreover, viral DNA will carry the normal allele into the

3. patient’s somatic cell. Finally the scientists will inject somatic cells, which
contain the introduced normal allele into the patient. Gene therapy need to go
through a long process of taking out isolated body cells, recombinant DNA, and
finally put it back into the body.
There are some benefits and limitations that might happen after the
gene therapy. With gene therapy people can prevent their children from the
diseases by changing their genes. Gene therapy will probably be the best choice
in the future for people to obstruct from the hereditary diseases such as cystic
fibrosis, haemophilia, AIDS, and cancer. For example, in September of 2001
there are more than 3500 patient that done gene therapy mainly affected by
cancer (63 %), genetic (13 %), cardiovascular (8 %) or infectious (6 %) diseases
(Position paper on social, 2010). In the future gene therapy might be allowing
for people parents to choose the skin colour, personality, intelligence quotient
etc by changing the DNA before the baby is born, which helps their child to get a
high position in the society, but this can also become a limitation. As the gene
therapy has developed too much and become a treatment that people are able to
use and waste the resources for some unnecessary situations, such as choosing
the unborn baby’s gender, hair colour, eye sight, personality etc, meanwhile it
will also make people similar to each other. An other limitation is doing gene
therapy will change the DNA of that person, which means the part of the body
that person did gene therapy on won’t have the original DNA that was given
from his/her parents, so there will have less connections between the child and
parent. Also, there are still certain dangers for children to do gene therapy.
From the technology we have so far Doctor wouldn’t suggest kids to take gene
therapy unless they are in serious ill and unable to be control by the cure of
treatments.
With the new technology of the gene therapy it might cause some
serious global issues such as ethical and economic. Gene therapy have a big
affect on the ethical of the one world issue, which means the questions of right
and wrong will come in to people’s mind. To recommend who a person is was
by looking at the DNA, personality etc, that was given from the parents, and to
change DNA you will no longer be who you are that you suppose to be. On the
other hand don’t find anything wrong about changing the DNA, for example,
people can dye their hair, but instead why not change the hair colour from DNA,
children go to school to get education, but not changing the DNA at the
beginning for a high intelligence quotient. Another ethical problem that might
happen is if parents make their children perfect then in the future world there
in on more not perfect person, which also might mean that everyone will be
similar to each other, and maybe if their parents have chosen the same
personality, skin, hair colour, height etc, then those people might be exactly the
same. The other important one world issue for gene therapy is economic. Today,
it caused a lot of money in order for people to have gene therapy treatments, but
the number of people that couldn’t pay for this is very high. In some countries
governments are helping the patients for few percent of the payment, but for a
lot of patients the payment is still too high for them to offer, especially in the
European countries.

4. Overall, the gene therapy is not in a stable situation where people are
able to take this treatment because of the disadvantages and the one world
issues that the governments still need to work on. Although, there are some
benefits to gene therapy, which gives a good start for the scientist to work on. I
think in the future when gene therapy is available for people to change skin
colour, personality, intelligence quotient etc, government should make some
related lows to stop, and not allow people to do that, otherwise there won’t have
differences from each other. I think it is better for people to develop their
knowledge in school instead of taking the gene therapy for high intelligence
quotient because we are able to learn and went through the process ourselves,
which are more natural and we shouldn’t break the natural process.
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