Thursday 25 October 2018

Role Of Biotechnologies In Modern Medicine

By Peter Wilson


The modern world has been flooded with new trends and biotechnologies in the ground of medicine are among them. This field mostly involves merging living organisms with other fields like industrial agricultural and medical fields for the purpose of reaching technological advancements and breakthroughs in the involved fields.

In the year 1953, the structure of the DNA was discovered and this became the main reason why scientists took more interest in biotechnology and started to use it for research purposes and in their private companies. Biotechnology is, however, most common in medicine for the making of antibiotics and vaccines.

There are a lot of threats facing us today including exposure to illness and viruses but with biotechnology, all these risks become easier to curb. For the diabetics, biotechnology is very useful as it fastened insulin production and made it safer than before where they had to consume insulin extracted from slaughtered animals and were at higher risks of contracting infections and allergies.

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 is a field with many benefits and has helped in getting of criminals using DNA testing and fingerprints scanning of the assumed victims but also has some own demerits the main one being that it is very expensive method that very few will be in a position to get help from it.




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