Monday, October 29, 2018

Role Of Biotechnologies In Modern Medicine

By Peter Wilson


The modern world has been flooded with new trends and biotechnologies in the ground of medicine are among them. This field mostly involves merging living organisms with other fields like industrial agricultural and medical fields for the purpose of reaching technological advancements and breakthroughs in the involved fields.

Scientists discovered the DNA structure in the year 1953 and ever since they started basing their research more on biotechnology and others used this discovery in their private companies for personal developments. This field became more common in the field of medicine for the manufacture of antibiotics and the manufacturing of vaccines.

There are a lot of threats facing us today including exposure to illness and viruses but with biotechnology, all these risks become easier to curb. For the diabetics, biotechnology is very useful as it fastened insulin production and made it safer than before where they had to consume insulin extracted from slaughtered animals and were at higher risks of contracting infections and allergies.

In instances where children are born with genetic defects, biotechnology can be counted on to correct some of these defects through gene cure which involves a variety of methods that work even on embryos. This was first done in 1990 to a little girl born with a deficiency in ADA enzyme where the defective gene was replaced with a normal and healthier gene.

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.

Some diseases are not detected early enough and hence become troublesome to treat; however, with biotechnology, such diseases can be detected earlier and treated with much ease. Basic detection methods are not as effective but with biotechnology detection and correction are fast and pathogens can be eliminated before they manifest and cause harm on the body.

India is proof to this as she is a leading global market in biotechnology and is a giant in treating ailments that are still a struggle to the rest of the world; she has had an undeniable amount of success making her among the best countries in the tuff of medicine and she has twelve recombinant therapeutics approved for human use out of the thirty available worldwide.

Biotechnology as the field has a lot of benefits including its role in identifying of criminals using gene testing and fingerprints scanning of the suspected person also has its some of the disadvantages and the main one being that it is a extreme costly and n=by so limiting the number of people to get the help from he technique




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