Biotechnology

Biotechnology Over the past decade, Biotechnology has advanced much to the advantage of many people. We have learned that with certain chemicals, we are able to cut- and-paste the DNA of certain organisms, and alter them to comply to our sociable needs. But this can also affect modern medicine, political factors, economic, and societal balances in our nation. For medicine, Biotechnology has been a blessing, healing people who suffer from a sex-linked trait known as Hemophilia. Hemophilia is a condition where the person may die of blood loss when cut or wounded. This is caused by a lack of a certain chemical known as Factor 9, which allows the patient to heal from wounds. Scientists may now insert a gene into the patients own DNA causing the patient to heal skin, which has been impossible until now, with Genetic-Engineering. I doubt that there have been any real disadvantages with this technology, since it works to heal the patient, but we really can't predict what kind of medical misfits there will be in the future, using this life-saving technology to their own personal, perhaps evil, advantages. Dealing with politics, Bioengineering has opened a whole new door pertaining to the military, whose use of it may create an ultimate destruction. The alterance of nature is un-natural, and creates an unbalancement in life. When we use this technology towards the wrong side, we may all be burned. You see, Biotechnology has the ability to altar what diseases we humans are susceptible to, and when scientists create something to eliminate immunities to diseases, it may result in a mass destruction of the evolved living being known as the human. This may sound tragic, but this is what Biotechnology is all about; changing genes so that they may fit our societal and economic needs. The government has probably taken this germ-warfare in to consideration, and is leading to an unhappy resolution. In this case, Biotechnology has no advantages. Socially, Biotechnology is a breakthrough in science. Our new techniques of giving nature a hand, in this case, will pave the road of the genetic highway to come in the future. We are now able to create the perfect tomato, the largest, reddest apples, and the plumpest grapes. We can score more milk by the cow, and create new chemicals to heal people. This is a society where we need not worry about a plague affecting our fruits and vegetation, nor our dairy and meat products. When we do not need to worry about certain factors like a draught or massive rain, we have a sociable balance between us and nature. Scientists have used biotechnology to an advantage here, and it seems applaudable. Yet, disadvantages may include harmful new substances in the plants being compounded together that may cause an allergic reaction to people. This is rare, and we shouldn't really worry about it, but we should be open-minded and consider these things. When it comes to the economy, people are most in desire for foods which are worth the money they spend on. Since we can now create the ultimate fruit, we should be able to produce them more quickly. And since consumers want more, we will then gain much capitol, creating a fine economic balance. For example, we are not making enough money because our cows cannot produce enough milk. Scientist and genetic engineers can now insert a gene which lets them make not only more milk, but the type of milk they want created. Now, we are wasting less to create more of something, and indeed has shown to increase economical factors extensively. Even though we have accomplished this in modern society, we are still young in the genetic age of science. We have yet to unleash the complete possibilities of biotechnology, like the creation of whole organisms, fully functional and self-sufficient. We have successfully generated an entire plant from a leaf, but compared to that, us humans are far more complicated and sophisticated. I myself stand that biotechnology can be used to our advantage, but I sternly warn you as Albert Einstein warned President Roosevelt about his discoveries of nuclear energy, that biotechnology can be a devastating new weapon, used to destroy human kind. I believe that the technology will flourish into the society as the computer has, having your own genetic lab at home so that you may cure yourself of a disease. But biotechnology is more than that, being that it will pave the future technological highway; perhaps instead of robots, we will have cloned entire human beings to work for us. There are endless possibilities, and we must take caution in them.