While gene therapy holds promise as a revolutionary approach to treating disease‚ ethical concerns over its use and ramifications have been expressed by scientists and lay people alike. For example‚ since much needs to be learned about how these genes actually work and their long-term effect‚ is it ethical to test these therapies on humans‚ where they could have a disastrous result? As with most clinical trials concerning new therapies‚ including many drugs‚ the patients participating in these studies
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Sexual Orientation Conversion therapy began in the time of Sigmund Freud‚ and how it was practiced in the time of Sigmund Freud is significantly different from how it is practiced in modern day society‚ Sexual Orientation Conversion therapy was used in order to further the field of psychosexuality that was still in its infant stage. Freud wrote to a woman in Nineteen- Thirty five who had asked for her son to be cured of his homosexuality‚ that “Homosexuality is assuredly no advantage‚ but it is nothing
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controversial topic is human germline gene therapy and this type of therapy does not have a place in 2016. I am against germline gene therapy because it is too early for human research‚ we as the science community do not know enough about the process of how genes control phenotypic expression‚ and if the technology to edit germline cells would be leaked to the public it could create an entirely new social inequality. Before I go into depth as to why this new type of therapy does not belong‚ allow me to tell
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The Methods and Effects of Gene Therapy Concerning Cancer Lindsay Adams Abstract It has been proposed that gene therapy could yield to future treatment of cancers and other diseases and genetic disorders. Various literature sites have expressed that gene therapy is currently only used in research studies‚ and is still very young and unpredictable in clinical studies. Gene therapy has become more and more applicable to current and future medical studies concerning the treatment of cancer. The
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http://www.nature.com/scitable/topicpage/controversies-in-treatment-approaches-gene-therapy-ivf-792 Historically‚ advances in science are typically made before society can conduct meaningful ethical and moral discussions about these advances. However‚ such discussions are crucial to setting policies that balance individual and public protections with the use of technology in medicine. The in vitro fertilization (IVF) "miracle" of the late 1970s occurred five years before the polymerase chain reaction
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investigations that delivered them for many new responses for diseases that have for so long remained beyond our grip which with all the controversy surrounding‚ it lead to benefits regarding medical fields. One happens to be gene therapy. Gene therapy is the outline of genes into cells to cure extensive diseases. Its rise is of the revolution foreshadowed by the outline of recombinant DNA practice that happened in the 1970s that began
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Jeffrey White Professor Doherty SO209 28th March‚ 2013 Is Gene Therapy a Form of Eugenics? In his article Is Gene Therapy a Form of Eugenics‚ John Harris discusses the concept of Eugenics when it comes to using Gene Therapy. Harris defines Eugenics as adapting to the production of “fine” offspring‚ or artificially producing offspring to fit certain criteria. He stresses on how this concept should be achieved. His main argument is that we should be in favor of Eugenics when it comes to potentially
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demonstrate the use of gene therapy on diseases that are caused by a single gene defect. This procedure was demonstrated on two different strains of baker’s yeast‚ EAY 235 and EAY 431‚ which both contained mutations in the LEU2 and TRP1 genes. Neither of these strains will grow without a proper medium that would supply both of these essential amino acids. The EAY 431 strain of yeast also contained a Rad 52 deletion‚ which caused EAY 431 to be a deficient‚ recombinant strain. The LEU2 gene is a linear fragment
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2489 words Evaluate the claim that Person-Centred Therapy offers the therapist all that he/she will need to treat clients. ‘Person-centred therapy’ is a description given to the humanistic approach to counselling originally developed by Carl Rogers in the mid-twentieth century. In order to evaluate the claim that this approach offers everything a therapist needs to treat any client‚ it is necessary to understand both the content of Rogers’ ideas and also their context: where they came from‚ how
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Standardised Testing Name: Institution: Abstract This paper explores two published books that touched on pros and cons of standardized testing in schools. Popham‚ (2001) and Sacks‚ (1999) suggest that through pros a student will have to pass certain tests to determine that he or she has acquired proficiency in various fields of study. According to the two authors‚ in cons the students who have mastery of the content‚ don’t show in the test; it mostly promotes teachers to teach tests and evaluate
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