Imagine if no one had cancer or any other diseases, and humans were faster and stronger than ever. Imagine beating Usain Bolt in a race. With gene therapy, we could accomplish all these achievements. Gene therapy is when genes are added to a patient to fix a genetic disorder. Making people faster and stronger is a type of gene therapy that doesn’t help genetic disorders. During gene therapy, the genes are added in a virus to carry the genes to the patient. Viruses aren’t the only way we can get the gene to the cell. Scientists have tried stem cells, which will grow into a cell with the gene and duplicate. Scientists have also tried liposomes, which have the ability to carry the gene to certain cells and pass the genes into your DNA. Gene therapy is done to replace mutated cells, fix mutated genes, and make disease cells more obvious …show more content…
The pros are also somewhat related. And anyway, it’s not the matter of knowing if we can do it, it’s knowing if we should do it. It isn’t magic, we created it, and humans aren’t perfect. I think we shouldn’t do it though, well, at least not yet. I feel that gene therapy at the moment is like a locked chest, full of secrets but hard to crack. By cracking this secret, we will help some and hurt some. Like the expression, you have to kill hundreds to save millions. I think we should do more tests with gene therapy before we use it for everyone. It is unstable, and I believe that in a few years, gene therapy will be a lot more stable. Even it was 100% stable, I would be a little a against it. What if it got into the wrong hands? What if Isis or some other terrorist group got it, and made their organization more deadly? I can tell you what I think, I think that would not be good. So we shouldn’t try to perfect all of it, just certain areas, like the disease areas. Because that is what the whole point of gene therapy is, to help cure