Over the past decade, has advanced much to the
advantage of many people. We have learned that with certain chemicals,
we are able to cut-and-paste the DNA of certain organisms, and alter
them to comply to our sociable needs. But this can also affect modern
medicine, political factors, economic, and societal balances in our
nation.
For medicine, Biotechnology has been a blessing, healing people
who suffer from a sex-linked trait known as Hemophilia. Hemophilia is
a condition where the person may die of blood loss when cut or
wounded. This is caused by a lack of a certain chemical known as
Factor 9, which allows the patient to heal from wounds. Scientists may
now insert a gene into the patients own DNA causing the patient to
heal skin, which has been impossible until now, with Genetic-Engineering.
I doubt that there have been any real disadvantages with this
technology, since it works to heal the patient, but we really can't
predict what kind of medical misfits there will be in the future,
using this life-saving technology to their own personal, perhaps evil,
advantages.
Dealing with politics, Bioengineering has opened a whole new
door pertaining to the military, whose use of it may create an
ultimate destruction. The alterance of nature is un-natural, and creates
an unbalancement in life. When we use this technology towards the
wrong side, we may all be burned. You see, Biotechnology has the
ability to altar what diseases we humans are susceptible to, and when
scientists create something to eliminate immunities to diseases, it may
result in a mass destruction of the evolved living being known as
the human. This may sound tragic, but this is what Biotechnology is
all about; changing genes so that they may fit our societal and
economic needs. The government has probably taken this germ-warfare in
to consideration, and is leading to an unhappy resolution. In this
case, Biotechnology has no advantages.
Socially, ...