Monster Essays - Genetic Engineering: Correcting the Code
Genetic Engineering: Correcting the Code
Often there is a sudden breakthrough in a field of sciences, a key
moment, an experiment, an event that changes people's lives all over the
world. In September of 1990, the first genetic treatment of a human being
with an inherited illness was they key moment or event for genetics. They
injection of a genetically altered white blood cells into the child's body
was little more than a transfusion. The child sat on a bed, an intravenous
tube was hooked to her arm and her own white blood cells were infused into
her circulation. Yet those white blood cells were like no other cells in
history. ....
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