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That Other Guy
Genetic Engineering is the future of the evolution of our world that we control. Taking the steps of natural evolution out of the equation and evolving ourselves and the world around us is a huge step for humanity. By eliminating starvation and diseases, which in turn we won't any longer lose loved ones to illnesses such as cancer. While at the same time we will have the ability to extend our lives to spend more time with loved ones. Through genetic engineering humanity will make diseases "history" as in a situation that only existed in the past. Over the history of humanity there have been illnesses that have affected us on massive scales. For instance the black plague and HIV / AIDs currently that affects millions around the world.
In the United Kingdom there is a requirement of around 1.6 million pints of blood a year. Blood is mainly made of a protein called Human Serum Albumin. There is a requirement of 500 tons of Human Serum Albumin around the world a year alone just to treat illnesses. Blood is always been high in clinical demand; the plan is to genetic engineer rice to product Human Serum Albumin. The rice will be genetically engineered to be small bio-reactors that 10% of the protein from the rice is Human Serum Albumin. The rice produced Human Serum Albumin has been already extracted and tested on treatments for rats with no adverse effects.
Increasing our life span is very important for no human looks forward to death. By the use of genetic engineering the human life span can be increased from 100-150 years For instance there is a genetic disorder called Progeria that is a genetic mutation that afflicts a person to seem to appear to grow older. Progeria inflicts diseases that are associated with aging that cause for example joins stiffness, hip dislocation and cardiovascular diseases. The disorder isn't associated with aging, but gives the afflicted appearance of aging. The Progeria gene mutation has been identified and soon there will be a cure for the error "mutation" in natural evolution. By targeting the Progeria gene we may be able to identify cures for example cardiovascular diseases. Different symptoms of illnesses will be countered over time due to genetic engineering.
Scientist has the ability through Genetic Engineering in enhance our food supply to be more productive and nutritional. Currently Genetic Engineers have introduced a human gene to dairy cows so they will product milk that is similar to humans. The milk being produced by the genetically engineered dairy cows will be a potential use as an alternative than formula milk. Genetic modified milk having properties of human milk which includes anti-bodies and nutrients that will be more efficient, then regular dairy milk. People are questioning the safety of genetic engineered milk, but milk produced by genetically engineered dairy cows will have more nutritional value and is easier to digest. For normal milk produced is lower in nutritional value, but is harder to digest and has absorption problems. Genetic modified milk will be more beneficial to infants as well adults.
While there are potential advancements that can be made; a certain machine called the evolution machine will expedite the process. The evolution machine was built by Harris Wang a graduate student at a lab ran by geneticist George Church at Harvard Medical School in Boston. Harris Wang thought to himself why not allow evolution to do the work for us. Instead of attempting to modify every aspect of a particular trait down to the very last DNA letter.
The machine has the ability of “multiplexing” that evolves by evolving a entire organism at a unpredicted rate. The machine has the ability to generate billions of new strains a day while the ability to add and change thousands of genes. Harris Wang proved his machine worked by modifying a strain of E. Coli bacteria, which produced small quantities of “lycopene: a pigment that makes tomatoes red”.
The basics of the machine function allowed the E.Coli to multiply. Then Wang mixed the E.Coli bacteria with DNA by introducing electric shock which opened the bacteria cell to accept the modified DNA. The process is homologous recombination, which is where the modified strain is produced “viral enzymes” tricks the cells into treating the added DNA as its own.
The new variants of the targeted genes were created while leaving the rest of the genetic makeup of the E.Coli the same. He cycle is repeated multiple of times until the end result were some of the bacteria created five times as much “lycopene” than the original strain. They have successfully modified a life form to produce more than what is normal.
Church the geneticist at the Harvard Medical lab calls this multiplex automated genome engineering “MAGE”. They envision to product the “MAGE” machines for around 90,000 USD each. Genetic engineering firms will be able to use this machine to accelerate research.
Even modifying the smallest genome can be costly. Craig Venter announced his team replaced a bacteria genome with a custom one. The project took 400 person-years of labor and cost around 40 million USD to achieve. MAGE can do the job more effectively by rewriting the current genome within a proven estimate of three days.
While genetic engineering can bring advancements; for we must take acknowledgement this brings negative effects also. Genetic modification that we could use to increase immunity in organisms could push diseases to evolve to become more lethal pathogen. Also modifying one portion of human DNA code may also induce later an alteration of the DNA chain in a negative manner creating a larger epidemic.
Also eliminating vast genetic diversity and changing to a society of completely genetic engineered humans may become an issue. Altering the genetic strain so there is only one genetic strain can make unknown recessive genes emerge that were never known; causing new illness to arise from genetic error creating an epidemic on a massive scale.
Social variation is needed even the flaws to make sure there is genetic diversity. In the fore seeable future there will be humans with modified genetics in the world; then there will be those who distain genetic engineering “social engineering”. We will depend on those who deny genetic modifications. Genetic engineered Humans may have unknown errors in their genetic code that could possibly not reveal itself for multiple generations. Maybe an illness or vast sterility, but the only hope for humanity will be those who stayed on the course of natural evolution. This is a predictable even with a predictable cause, “but unknown factor “the what” , but we will know the how/cause. What will happen is the question.
We will have the ability to start writing our own evolution. Everyone wants a world without loss of love ones by illness that can be prevented with genetic engineering. But when extending life of humans we must realize the resources they consume. We must also extend our resources; food must be also genetically engineered to meet the demand, from the plants to the cattle. By modifying these resources we are changing our biosphere and must do so cautiously and gradually. We must create an equilibrium that will be created over time so adjustments can be made correctly. If not there will be social and unknown epidemics that will occur; which have a high potential to bring our own demise.
In the United Kingdom there is a requirement of around 1.6 million pints of blood a year. Blood is mainly made of a protein called Human Serum Albumin. There is a requirement of 500 tons of Human Serum Albumin around the world a year alone just to treat illnesses. Blood is always been high in clinical demand; the plan is to genetic engineer rice to product Human Serum Albumin. The rice will be genetically engineered to be small bio-reactors that 10% of the protein from the rice is Human Serum Albumin. The rice produced Human Serum Albumin has been already extracted and tested on treatments for rats with no adverse effects.
Increasing our life span is very important for no human looks forward to death. By the use of genetic engineering the human life span can be increased from 100-150 years For instance there is a genetic disorder called Progeria that is a genetic mutation that afflicts a person to seem to appear to grow older. Progeria inflicts diseases that are associated with aging that cause for example joins stiffness, hip dislocation and cardiovascular diseases. The disorder isn't associated with aging, but gives the afflicted appearance of aging. The Progeria gene mutation has been identified and soon there will be a cure for the error "mutation" in natural evolution. By targeting the Progeria gene we may be able to identify cures for example cardiovascular diseases. Different symptoms of illnesses will be countered over time due to genetic engineering.
Scientist has the ability through Genetic Engineering in enhance our food supply to be more productive and nutritional. Currently Genetic Engineers have introduced a human gene to dairy cows so they will product milk that is similar to humans. The milk being produced by the genetically engineered dairy cows will be a potential use as an alternative than formula milk. Genetic modified milk having properties of human milk which includes anti-bodies and nutrients that will be more efficient, then regular dairy milk. People are questioning the safety of genetic engineered milk, but milk produced by genetically engineered dairy cows will have more nutritional value and is easier to digest. For normal milk produced is lower in nutritional value, but is harder to digest and has absorption problems. Genetic modified milk will be more beneficial to infants as well adults.
While there are potential advancements that can be made; a certain machine called the evolution machine will expedite the process. The evolution machine was built by Harris Wang a graduate student at a lab ran by geneticist George Church at Harvard Medical School in Boston. Harris Wang thought to himself why not allow evolution to do the work for us. Instead of attempting to modify every aspect of a particular trait down to the very last DNA letter.
The machine has the ability of “multiplexing” that evolves by evolving a entire organism at a unpredicted rate. The machine has the ability to generate billions of new strains a day while the ability to add and change thousands of genes. Harris Wang proved his machine worked by modifying a strain of E. Coli bacteria, which produced small quantities of “lycopene: a pigment that makes tomatoes red”.
The basics of the machine function allowed the E.Coli to multiply. Then Wang mixed the E.Coli bacteria with DNA by introducing electric shock which opened the bacteria cell to accept the modified DNA. The process is homologous recombination, which is where the modified strain is produced “viral enzymes” tricks the cells into treating the added DNA as its own.
The new variants of the targeted genes were created while leaving the rest of the genetic makeup of the E.Coli the same. He cycle is repeated multiple of times until the end result were some of the bacteria created five times as much “lycopene” than the original strain. They have successfully modified a life form to produce more than what is normal.
Church the geneticist at the Harvard Medical lab calls this multiplex automated genome engineering “MAGE”. They envision to product the “MAGE” machines for around 90,000 USD each. Genetic engineering firms will be able to use this machine to accelerate research.
Even modifying the smallest genome can be costly. Craig Venter announced his team replaced a bacteria genome with a custom one. The project took 400 person-years of labor and cost around 40 million USD to achieve. MAGE can do the job more effectively by rewriting the current genome within a proven estimate of three days.
While genetic engineering can bring advancements; for we must take acknowledgement this brings negative effects also. Genetic modification that we could use to increase immunity in organisms could push diseases to evolve to become more lethal pathogen. Also modifying one portion of human DNA code may also induce later an alteration of the DNA chain in a negative manner creating a larger epidemic.
Also eliminating vast genetic diversity and changing to a society of completely genetic engineered humans may become an issue. Altering the genetic strain so there is only one genetic strain can make unknown recessive genes emerge that were never known; causing new illness to arise from genetic error creating an epidemic on a massive scale.
Social variation is needed even the flaws to make sure there is genetic diversity. In the fore seeable future there will be humans with modified genetics in the world; then there will be those who distain genetic engineering “social engineering”. We will depend on those who deny genetic modifications. Genetic engineered Humans may have unknown errors in their genetic code that could possibly not reveal itself for multiple generations. Maybe an illness or vast sterility, but the only hope for humanity will be those who stayed on the course of natural evolution. This is a predictable even with a predictable cause, “but unknown factor “the what” , but we will know the how/cause. What will happen is the question.
We will have the ability to start writing our own evolution. Everyone wants a world without loss of love ones by illness that can be prevented with genetic engineering. But when extending life of humans we must realize the resources they consume. We must also extend our resources; food must be also genetically engineered to meet the demand, from the plants to the cattle. By modifying these resources we are changing our biosphere and must do so cautiously and gradually. We must create an equilibrium that will be created over time so adjustments can be made correctly. If not there will be social and unknown epidemics that will occur; which have a high potential to bring our own demise.
