genetic enginering
Science continues to evolve at a much higher rate than the beings that gave it birth. The transformation time from ape, to human far exceeds the time from an abbacus, to a computer. However, science, in the past, has always remained distant, it has allowed for advances in production, transportation, and even entertainment, but never in history has science be able to so deeply affect our lives as genetic engineering will undoubtedly do. With the birth of this new technology, scientific extremists and anti-technologists have risen in arms to block its future by spreading fear by misinterpretation of facts; However, genetic engineering is a safe and powerful tool that will yield unprecedented results, specifically in the field of medicine; by which it will usher in a world where gene defects, bacterial disease, and even aging are a thing of the past! Understanding genetic engineering and its possibilities for society, is to obtain a rough knowledge of its history and method. The basis for altering the evolutionary process is dependant on the understanding of how individuals pass on characteristics to their offspring. Genetics first discoverey of the secrets of nature's evolutionary process is when an Austr
The morale and safety questions surrounding genetic engineering currently cause this new science to be cast in a false light. Anti-technologists and political extremists spread incorrect interpretation of facts coupled with statements that genetic engineering is not natural and defies the order of things. The morale question of biotechnology can be answered by studying where the evolution of man is, and where it is leading our society. After all is it not natural order for humans to come up with these new theories? Ever since biblical times the lifespan of a human being has been pegged at roughly 70 years. But is this number truly finite? In order to uncover the answer, knowledge of the process of aging is needed. A common conception is that the human body contains an internal biological clock which continues to tick for about 70 years, then stops. An alternate "watch" analogy could be that the human body contains a certain type of alarm clock, and after so many years, the alarm sounds and deterioration beings. With that frame of thinking, the human body does not begin to age until a particular switch is tripped. With the aid of genetic enginering stopping this process would simply involve a means of never allowing the switch to be tripped. The Institute of Molecular Biology, propos
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