Imagine a world without cancer, Alzheimer or any other genetic disease. ... Most diseases would be able to be prevented by detecting the trait that make people predisposed to suffer that disease in particular. ... If genetic engineering is done on reproductive cells, children could be kept from carrying the genes that are responsible for a specific disease, and, therefore, prevented from carrying those diseases to future generations [CITATION Mat12 p 576-579 l 1033 ]. ... However, the major impact of genetic engineering that has not been mentioned yet would be curing diseases that seemed incur...

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Then very few people knew hardly anything about the disease. ... These cells manufacture antibodies to protect against disease and cancer. ... When the disease first appeared, it took physicians great lengths to figure out that a single new disease was involved. ... HIV/AIDS infection is becoming a manageable disease. ... These illnesses are referred to as "opportunistic" infections or diseases. ...

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