Sunday, October 28, 2018

Merits Of Biotechnologies And Modern Medicine

By Peter Wilson


In almost all of socialized medicine is a practice that has to be there since time immemorial and in the modern society, it has leaned forward towards biotechnologies. This technology involves using living organisms in conducting their research and study for the purpose of making advancements in medicine production.

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.

With the current threats, everyone is prone to exposure from diseases and viruses and with biotechnology, this becomes easier to combat. The most common instance where biotechnology proves useful is in the production of insulin which is very crucial to diabetics. Insulin was extracted from slaughtered animals before and this left people at high risks of contracting allergies and diseases.

With biotechnology, production of medicine has become safer and effective and is at bigger and higher rates than before with a very wide range of medicines being produced for a lot of diseases. This prevents harmful reactions that may attack the immune system which happens when the medical products used are from non-human sources are used.

It also helps in the bulk production of medicine that has upheld to be safer, more resourceful and efficient and can also be used to cure a wide range of diseases with better outcome.It also helps in prevention any unnecessary reactions to the drugs by the resistant system which can happen when the medical products consumed are from non-human sources.

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.

There is also genetic testing that can be used in determining the sex of a child and also helps to screen for any carrier genes that may be present and this is a practice that has been faster and easier after the discovery of the DNA structure. This is a practice that has helped in minimizing the transfer of unwanted and harmful genes to the child.

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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