Different biotechnology techniques.
You will be watching some short films on using gene therapy to treat conditions in somatic cells. You will submit your responses to the questions on BB as either a Word Doc or PDF file.
Something different. Watch the two short videos about different biotechnology techniques.
Both of these discuss using gene therapy. This technology has many benefits, however it is still very young. As described in one of my lectures there are two types of gene therapy. We hit on editing the gametes when we did our discussion post on CRISPR. The type of therapy described in these videos goes over somatic gene therapy.
For this assignment you will give your opinion on somatic gene therapy. In one to two paragraphs state your views on somatic gene therapy. If you were personally affected with a condition that could be treated with gene therapy would you enroll in a clinical trial to try it knowing that it may not work and may have potential side effects? What if it was your child that had a condition that could be treated with gene therapy and was offered a spot in a similar clinical trial? If the therapy was only tested in model organisms, would you wait to see it tested in humans first? If there another option like the use of human stem cells to test this therapy on before human trials? You can justify your opinion on topics like severity of the disease, types of symptoms, age, percent success rate, and so on. You are not limited to only talking about gene therapy used in eyes like in these videos. You can research up on current gene therapies being offered too. I am not picky on style, margins, font and so on. You just need to justify your opinions on the topic. Lack of reasoning will lead to deductions on your grade. Remember that this is an opinion paper and I cannot count your opinion wrong.
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