Wednesday, October 31, 2018

Biotechnologies And Their Benefits In Medicine Today

By Peter Wilson


The turf of medicine has always been there and always will be with even better advancements thanks to the new trends being adopted with biotechnologies taking the lead. Biotechnology mainly involves incorporation of living orgasms with other fields like agricultural, industrial and medical fields for the whole purpose of achieving better results and breakthroughs.

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.

The world is today being faced with a lot of threats and anyone can be exposed to infections and viruses which have now become easier to control with the use of biotechnology. It proves to be most useful to diabetics who can now easily access insulin which used to be quite a struggle to get as it came from butchered animals and diseases could be easily transmitted to humans.

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 manufacture of medicine that has proven to be better, more effective and efficient and can be used to treat a wide variety of illness with better results.it also helps in preventing any unwanted reactions to the drugs by the resistant system which may also happen when the medical products taken are from non-human source. Children can at times with genetic defects that need correcting using biotechnology and this can be done using gene healing which involves using a various methods that also help in correcting any defects in embryos. This was an effective method first used in 1990 on a young girl with ADA deficiency and the nonfunctional DNA was replaced with a functional one.

There is proof in support of using biotechnology as India one of the leading countries in this field and has had tremendous success and is a leader in the treatment of some of the toughest diseases. She has had an amazing breakthrough and has twelve approved recombinant therapeutics for human use out of the available 30 worldwide.

One of the countries that are a testimony to this is India as she is a leading global market for biotechnology and is a giant in treating ailments that have proved troublesome to the rest of the world. Her success is undeniable and currently unmatched. There is also genetics testing which helps in determining the sex of a child, it detects any genetic disease a parent may be having and if it is transferable to the child. It also is important in screening carrier genes that could be present in parents. This helps in combating any transfer of harmful or affected genes to children and also plays a big while one is getting a paternity test.

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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