MEDICINE
AND GENETIC RESEARCH: PROMISE AND PROBLEMS
When
scientist identified genes connected with serious disease and birth defects,
medicines has much benefit. After making some testes, doctors can tell their patients
that their genes might transfer certain diseases to their children. In
addition, if they are suffering from some serious disease like Huntington's
disease, they decide not to have children, who who are expected to suffer from
such diseases.
In
the 1990s, the possibility of of genetic medicine made many companies invest in
such business and researchers were helped by such
investment. Researchers could successfully develop many testes for life-threatening
diseases. For example, French doctors could restore immune deficiency of a
child by introducing a normal gene into the child's bone marrow. However, some
researchers exaggerated their achievements hid their weakness.
In fact, they had not
become very successful. They would introduce tests without being properly
careful, and sometimes it led to the patient's death. Actually, biological
companies would force researchers to test earlier, so they had not become
successful. The researchers naturally have to satisfy their financiers. Now the
researchers have realized their mistakes. And they are careful not to make
haste earlier.
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