A New Future: Gene Therapy

New Future: I imagine that gene therapy can change his genetic structure and change the evolutionary process of children's world and its future. This is a very real possibility of gene therapy. In the future, changing your physical or mental health may be as simple as influenza vaccination. However, the impact of gene therapy is long-term and may affect your future descendants and your own health. What is gene therapy? Researchers who were first discovered in the mid-1970s were able to isolate specific genes from DNA.

Germline gene therapy modifies the genes of eggs and sperm cells and then communicates genetic changes to offspring. Throughout this therapy experiment, scientists injected DNA fragments into fertilized mouse eggs. Mice grow into adults and offspring have new genes. Scientists have discovered that this treatment can solve specific growing and infertility problems. Although it may prevent genetic diseases, germline gene therapy is controversial and has rarely been studied for technical and ethical reasons.

Gene therapy has attracted scientists and non scientists all over the world in 2017, but there are good reasons for it. Unlike drugs and surgery, gene therapy changes the patient's DNA. Please know the cure. In an interview with the recent famous geneticist George Church, he predicted "gene therapy will be one of the most accurate and safest mechanisms we have".

Gene therapy is a promising new field of medical research. In gene therapy, researchers are trying to provide a copy of healthy genes to cells with mutated genes or missing genes in order to inherit 'good' genes. Since many viruses can insert their own DNA into target cells, viruses are often used to carry healthy genes to target cells. However, gene therapy has problems. Scientists still do not know much about the role of every gene in the human body. A great scientific effort like the Human Genome Project and related projects completed the whole human genome map (all genetic material on the organism's chromosome), but in order to understand the role of each gene and its function, It will take months. We will interact with each other. For most diseases, scientists do not know how and how genes function. In addition, there is great difficulty in inserting normal genes into appropriate cells without causing problems on other parts of the body.