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Sunday, 28 October 2018

Role Of Biotechnologies In Modern Medicine

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By Peter Wilson


In almost all of socialized medicine is a practice that has to be there since time immemorial and in the modern society, it has leaned forward towards biotechnologies. This technology involves using living organisms in conducting their research and study for the purpose of making advancements in medicine production.

Scientists discovered the DNA structure in the year 1953 and ever since they started basing their research more on biotechnology and others used this discovery in their private companies for personal developments. This field became more common in the field of medicine for the manufacture of antibiotics and the manufacturing of vaccines.

With the current threats, everyone is prone to exposure from diseases and viruses and with biotechnology, this becomes easier to combat. The most common instance where biotechnology proves useful is in the production of insulin which is very crucial to diabetics. Insulin was extracted from slaughtered animals before and this left people at high risks of contracting allergies and diseases.

In instances where children are born with genetic defects, biotechnology can be counted on to correct some of these defects through gene cure which involves a variety of methods that work even on embryos. This was first done in 1990 to a little girl born with a deficiency in ADA enzyme where the defective gene was replaced with a normal and healthier gene.

Sometimes children can be born with genetic defects and they can be corrected using biotechnology where gene therapy can be applied and it involves applying a collection of methods that can also correct defects in embryos. This was first applied in 1990 to a little girl born with a deficiency in ADA enzyme and the nonfunctional gene was compensated for with a normal one.

There is proof in support of using biotechnology as India one of the leading countries in this field and has had tremendous success and is a leader in the treatment of some of the toughest diseases. She has had an amazing breakthrough and has twelve approved recombinant therapeutics for human use out of the available 30 worldwide.

There is also genetic testing that can be used in determining the sex of a child and also helps to screen for any carrier genes that may be present and this is a practice that has been faster and easier after the discovery of the DNA structure. This is a practice that has helped in minimizing the transfer of unwanted and harmful genes to the child.

Biotechnology as the field has a lot of benefits including its role in identifying of criminals using gene testing and fingerprints scanning of the suspected person also has its some of the disadvantages and the main one being that it is a extreme costly and n=by so limiting the number of people to get the help from he technique




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