How is PGD (Pre-implantation genetic diagnosis) HELPFUL?
The benefits of this medical intervention are boundless. It would allow a family to virtually eradicate a genetic disease in only a few generations. Muscular Dystrophy is an excellent example, and a great subject for PGD.. Muscular Dystrophy (MD) is a group of genetic and hereditary (see picture left for gene flow pattern) muscle diseases that weaken the muscles of the body, sometimes very severely. If two parents decide to use either IFV or PGD, doctors can test each of the eggs for the gene for MD. If they find an egg that does not carry the gene, they can implant it and reduce the chances for this disease greatly. This also means less money will be spent in hospitals for medical treatments needed for a sick child in the future.
Designer babies may also be created to help another in need. Parents may have a child suffering from a disease and in need of an organ or blood transplant. Imagine you have a child suffering from Leukemia, a cancer of the blood/bone marrow. He needs a bone marrow donation, or he will die young. You and your husband/wife are not matches for his bone marrow. You are, however, able to have another child. Through designer babies, they could create a perfect match for your child's blood, bone marrow, or other organ.
Genetic screening on embryos has the potential to wipe out genetic disease by virtually removing the alleles from such disorders. When it is used in correct form, for medical treatment, children born in the future have the potential to be purely "healthy" and carry no signs of genetic disease.
Questions:
ReplyDelete1. Where is this taken from?
2. Who is the author and what position does he/she have to write this?
3. The article says that PGD is helpful. Is this always the case? Are there disadvantages of it?
1.This article is taken from http://designerbabies.weebly.com/pros.html
Delete2.There are 4 authors who wrote this article and they are Mona Ahmad,Harshal Desai,Hannah Morgan and Lara Yoon.They are all Biochemistry and Biology major at the Georgia Institute of Technology,who specialises in research on biology which involves PGD.
4.There are disadvantages of PGD too but this article focuses only on the advantages of PGD as you can see from the title
2.How would you know that they are reliable authors? They could have just been writing about their own opinions instead of a factual/general opinion from everyone.
DeleteYes I agree with Sherissa, even if they are biochemistry and biology majors, they are not journalists. So how do you know if this article is not based on their opinion or whether it is biased?
DeleteQuestions:
ReplyDelete1. To what extent is this article reliable?
2. What do you think is the author's purpose to write this article?
3. Where is this from?
4. Is the author an expert in this field?
1.To a large extent is this article reliable as it is written by Mona Ahmad,Harshal Desai,Hannah Morgan and Lara Yoon who are all Biochemistry and Biology major at the Georgia Institute of Technology,who specialises in research on biology which involves PGD.
Delete2.The author probably wants to promote PGD as they only wrote about the advantages of PGD and not the disadvantages.
3.As i mentioned in my reply to Xiang Jie,this artice is taken from http://designerbabies.weebly.com/pros.html
4.Yes they are,as explained above
1&2. As mentioned on my comment on your reply on Xiang Jie's comment.
DeleteThanks you so much for sharing on your great idea about this topic for sure your idea is more helpful for me.
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