Merits Of Biotechnologies And Modern Medicine

By Peter Wilson


The modern world has been flooded with new trends and biotechnologies in the ground of medicine are among them. This field mostly involves merging living organisms with other fields like industrial agricultural and medical fields for the purpose of reaching technological advancements and breakthroughs in the involved fields.

In the year 1953, the structure of the DNA was discovered and this became the main reason why scientists took more interest in biotechnology and started to use it for research purposes and in their private companies. Biotechnology is, however, most common in medicine for the making of antibiotics and vaccines.

There are a lot of threats facing us today including exposure to illness and viruses but with biotechnology, all these risks become easier to curb. For the diabetics, biotechnology is very useful as it fastened insulin production and made it safer than before where they had to consume insulin extracted from slaughtered animals and were at higher risks of contracting infections and allergies.

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.

Genetic testing which is used to determine the sex of a child, any genetic diseases in parents and can also screen the presence of carrier genes is made possible by biotechnology and the studying of the DNA structure. This study is very important as it helps avoid transfer of vice genes to children and also helps to determine and validate paternity tests of children. With these biotechnology trends, it is now very easy to catch criminals with fingerprint scanners and use of DNA when collecting evidence in crime scenes. Although this is a field with a lot of benefits, it has its own disadvantages among them being it high expenses that not most if not all can afford.




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