Thursday, 25 October 2018

Merits Of Biotechnologies And Modern Medicine

By Peter Wilson


The turf of medicine has always been there and always will be with even better advancements thanks to the new trends being adopted with biotechnologies taking the lead. Biotechnology mainly involves incorporation of living orgasms with other fields like agricultural, industrial and medical fields for the whole purpose of achieving better results and breakthroughs.

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.

With the current threats, everyone is prone to exposure from diseases and viruses and with biotechnology, this becomes easier to combat. The most common instance where biotechnology proves useful is in the production of insulin which is very crucial to diabetics. Insulin was extracted from slaughtered animals before and this left people at high risks of contracting allergies and diseases.

Biotechnology is very helpful when it comes to mass production of more safe, effective and efficient medicines for almost all types of illnesses and also helps in preventing unwanted harmful reactions by the immune to the drugs which is a common occurrence when medical products from non-human sources are used.

It also helps in the bulk manufacture of medicine that has proven to be better, more effective and efficient and can be used to treat a wide variety of illness with better results.it also helps in preventing any unwanted reactions to the drugs by the resistant system which may also happen when the medical products taken are from non-human source. Children can at times with genetic defects that need correcting using biotechnology and this can be done using gene healing which involves using a various methods that also help in correcting any defects in embryos. This was an effective method first used in 1990 on a young girl with ADA deficiency and the nonfunctional DNA was replaced with a functional one.

Diseases that are diagnosed while still in their earlier stages become easier to treat and the chronic ones stand at higher chances of being cured. Using basic methods diagnosis becomes almost impossible but with biotechnology detection and correction is easier and the harmful body pathogens that are detected during manifestation can be detected earlier and corrected on time.

One of the countries that are a testimony to this is India as she is a leading global market for biotechnology and is a giant in treating ailments that have proved troublesome to the rest of the world. Her success is undeniable and currently unmatched. There is also genetics testing which helps in determining the sex of a child, it detects any genetic disease a parent may be having and if it is transferable to the child. It also is important in screening carrier genes that could be present in parents. This helps in combating any transfer of harmful or affected genes to children and also plays a big while one is getting a paternity test.

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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