Monday 29 October 2018

Biotechnologies And Their Benefits In Medicine Today

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.

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.

In instances where children are born with genetic defects, biotechnology can be counted on to correct some of these defects through gene cure which involves a variety of methods that work even on embryos. This was first done in 1990 to a little girl born with a deficiency in ADA enzyme where the defective gene was replaced with a normal and healthier gene.

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.

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.

India is proof to this as she is a leading global market in biotechnology and is a giant in treating ailments that are still a struggle to the rest of the world; she has had an undeniable amount of success making her among the best countries in the tuff of medicine and she has twelve recombinant therapeutics approved for human use out of the thirty available worldwide.

Biotechnology is a field with many benefits and has helped in getting of criminals using DNA testing and fingerprints scanning of the assumed victims but also has some own demerits the main one being that it is very expensive method that very few will be in a position to get help from it.




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