This gives rise to a host of complex legal issues, including which of two parents can claim custody over the in vitro embryo, or the legal effect of any transfer of decisional authority over the embryo(eg. Donation).
As a student of Science major in Genetics , I can remember when recombinant DNA technology first came on the scene, and people were absolutely appalled at the prospect of "creating" what I suppose you could call "forms of life." Yet I myself ended up being a close beneficiary of this tecnology. .
My auntie has had insulin-dependent diabetes for 42 years, and she takes four insulin injections every day. Were it not for the technology that permits the production of human insulin (which is much purer and in most cases better tolerated than beef or pork insulins), she could not control her disease as well as she is able to. You may not think this is a big deal but the truth is that diabetes is one of the leading causes of blindness and kidney failure and amputation of limbs. If she can avoid having those things happen to her, then I think that's a good thing. This is just one example of what this sort of technology can do. Which isn't to say that it shouldn't be studied and monitored closely and very very carefully. .
If you use the (I think, faulty) analogy that only God can create life, then you might as well say that humans should not be able to do anything besides exist. If you believe in God or some higher power, then you have to believe, or at least I do, that we were given brains for important reasons, those reasons including to help our fellow humans by curing diseases and making food abundant and so forth. .
Talking about in vitro fertilisation , I think I have a problem with infertile couples using IVF as a way to get a baby that they want but perhaps that's because I don't understand the feeling of wanting a baby with your own genes that much .
Childless couples can't escape the fact that they do not fit into society as we know it.
Remove eggs and sperm from each of the male and female subject and allow fertilisation to occur in a glass Petri dish also known as IN VITRO FERTILISATION. Select one fertilised healthy egg which is in it's 16 cell stage of development, all the cells will be identical due to mitosis. ...
Human genetics key landmarks in genetics 1839- cell theory Schleiden & Schwann 1859- particulate inheritance Mendel 1877- chromosomes observed Flemming 1900- blood groups discovered Landsteiner 1903- chromosomes carry genes Sutton 1908- inheritance of blood groups Ottenburg 1910- 1st genetic clinic- USA Davenport 1946- 1st genetic clinic- UK Roberts 1949- sex chromatin Barr 1953- DNA chromosomes in man Watson & Crick 1960- 1st chr.. abnormality...
The comparison of Mary Shelley's 1818 novel Frankenstein, and Ridley Scott's 1992 film, Blade Runner, facilitates the examination of transforming societal values and the human condition. The transition from early 19th century England when Romanticism was challenging aspects of the dominant Enlight...
