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#GermlineTherapy SomaticTherapy MedicineOfTheFuture ReligionVsMedicine

The dysfunctional protein in the DNA not only becomes functional again but it is can also be replicated to any protein dysfunctions that could occur in the future. And the overall health of someone can be enhanced from increased muscle mass to better blood flow to controlling allergies

The viruses modified to change the DNA sequence can solve and prevent much more than any other modern medicine. Antibiotics cannot treat viral infections and chemotherapy can’t cure outbreaks of influenza or ebola but gene therapy can do that plus more.

#MedicineOfTheFuture

Gene Therapy is still a new and experimental procedure in the medical field and is more commonly seen in clinical trials but with more research it could be a regular procedure in a few years. Gene therapy can prolong the life of anyone, whether they’re in utero, just born or years old.

The place in which the germline therapy takes place is in sex cells while somatic gene therapy takes place in other body cells.

Germline and Somatic gene therapy are very similar in the fact that both procedures are for the correcting of DNA sequences in cells to eliminate a mutation or disease in a person and by doing so they introduce a foreign virus to the body to contribute to said DNA correction. But the difference is the type of cell that the therapies effect.

Meaning that genes are transferred into the somatic cells of a person and the new none mutated alleles correct the mutant or diseased alleles in the DNA sequence.

The FDA defines somatic-cell therapy as the administration to humans of autologous, allogeneic, or xenogeneic living somatic cells that have been manipulated or processed to change their biologic characteristics

https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJM199310143291607

Germline Therapy could be the deciding factor in whether or not a chid is born with muscular dystrophy, cancer, MS, cognitive disfunction and much more...

#HealthyBaby FutureofMedicine SaveALife

Then there is the ethical and moral view point that it is unnatural to genetically modify genes and scientist need to find another way to cure or prevent the disease. But the problem with this opposing side is that most of its arguments are from a religious stance and I am a firm believer in my faith as well (which I will keep undisclosed), but my beliefs are not the beliefs of all. This is why there is a separation of Church and State because the statement “doctors are playing God” is irrelevant because to some there is no God; this is also in no form blasphemy, this is not to discredit religion but to separate it from science and be equal to all.

This type of manipulation could be see as unfair as using steroids in athletics or cheating on test, because it is not what the said child would have been born with, they were given scientific enhancements. But if thats the case than we would also have to digress the advancement in the transgender community because those are men and women are going through extensive physical and hormonal changes to become some something that they weren’t born with.

While germline gene therapy was created for more serious conditions there is the possibility of using it for cosmetic purposes. For example if a family is prone to short offspring (5ft 2in and shorter), black hair and low I.Q. points they could have their offsprings genes altered to be taller than 6ft and have brown hair with extremely high I.Q.’s.

The genes changed are now inheritable by the offspring of someone who underwent therapy, meaning if a disease such as Huntington's or Cerebral Palsy is eliminated from the DNA strand than it is no longer inheritable by future children.....but with anything great there is always the possibility of abuse.

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Germline gene therapy is the transfer of genes to treat genetic disorders and diseases in a person's genes that take place in the eggs, sperm and other reproducing sex cells. Gene transfers usually involve a virus that will deliver a therapeutic gene to the cells that needs to be corrected. Viruses are used because they can recognize certain cells and carry genetic material into the cells' genes. Then scientist remove the original disease causing genes from the viruses and replace them with new non-disease affected genes. Then the body will produce the right proteins needed to get rid of the gene causing the disease.

Somatic cells make up almost all the cells of the body and germline cells are the eggs and sperm and the cells that produce them.

#CellTherapy GeneticModification

There are two specific generic modifying procedures: gremlin gene therapy and somatic cell therapy. The main distinction between somatic cells therapy and germline cell therapy is the type of cells used in the procedures.

#GermlinGeneTherapy SomaticCellTherapy GMO

The gene therapy clinical trials in the U.S. are regulated and monitored by the Food and Drug Administration and the National Institutes of Health to ensure that patient safety and wellbeing are a top priority.

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