Human Genetic Engineering

     What is good about Human Engineering? What is bad about Human Engineering? We live in a time where so many things are possible the question is being they always the best things. Human Engineering per the google dictionary the definition is the management of industrial labor, especially with regard to relationships between people and machines; ergonomics.

    

     In the article Human Engineering, it has been stated that science plays a big role in the “genomes” quoted in the article as well as technology there are so many questions asked about this developing technique. People have their own ideas about Human engineering some believe it some don’t. The people that have agreed on the study of Human engineering or think that the research is very important solely believe in the technology due to the developing medical information. For example, studies have been done on reproduction, genetics, and hereditary diseases that have been also researched on animals. One of the biggest diseases that were recently researched was cystic fibrosis and the effects of Human Engineering and the spread of the disease throughout a person’s genetics and they are using this study to try and fight the battle of cystic fibrosis along with diabetes’s and several other autoimmune diseases as time has gone on more and more researchers have found evidence that the genetic engineering has the potential to improve a person’s life or quality of life for the ones that are suffering from these diseases. The way that all of this takes place is by researchers mutating the disease and using the research on animals and plants and so far, what they have found is that the information based on the research has allowed them to see longer life in the patients that suffer, through the animals and the plants. Now they have also done research on detecting illness and diseases during a women’s unborn fetus by doing early screenings. The jury is still out on this research some are truly in belief of this technology and some are totally against it. However, based on research and what studies say per the Human engineering article if more people were on board there is a world of information that could be learned from just fetus research and early detection of disease. 

     

     There are so many positive reasons for the technology and ways that it can help with something as simple as allergies. With every upside when it comes to science there is most definitely a downside as we know there are no guarantees when it comes to science and it can sometimes be a roll of the dice when it comes to research on an animal or plan let alone a human being. Accidents happen per reviewed journals in the article indexed in pub med in the period of 2000-2015 sometimes with this type of engineering the virus that is used to be genetically modified can become what they called an endangered species mutation virus that can’t be healed because they become resistant basically stating that it can become a stronger virus. Resulting in a serious problem or outbreak that could potentially not be healed by anything or anyone as far as medications like antibiotics. The engineering process is very tricky it seems when you start talking about resistance to medications such as antibiotics eyebrows will be raised that is why a lot of the researchers really are striving for early detection of these types of things. They look for selectable markers per the article and resistance is one of them, and another is markers that help them identify certain cells that can help them early on. 

     People have lots of questions here is where the ethics becomes involved and is ok to genetically modify things like a virus. Although yes in the future this could do each and every person on the plan some good. What if this type of information gets in the wrong hands let’s say for instance a terrorist and they make up these resistant viruses? What then these are a lot of the questions that are asked by the opposing audience. They ask could weapons be formed with the use of this technology. One of the things that were stated in the article by researchers who surveyed were this is somewhat playing god and in the wrong hands, this could be so very dangerous. No opinion is right or wrong anytime that you are dealing with something as important as human body there are always going to be risk the key is to stay educated in the knowledge of Human engineering and what effects it can have may they be good or bad.

Works Cited 

Citation: Patra S, Andrew AA. Human, Social, and Environmental Impacts of Human Genetic
Engineering. J Biomedical Sci. 2015, 4:2. doi:10.4172/2254-609X.100014 Annals of Biomedical
Engineering
January 2004, Volume 32, Issue 1, pp 112–122| Cite as