I really have mixed feelings about this. A part of me is a little scared at what we are able to do these days. I guess I've always looked at our genes as the basic building blocks that make us who we are as individuals. I find it a little strange that we have the ability to change that. I guess if I or someone I care about had one of the diseases that they are trying to cure such as cystic fibrosis, hemophilia or muscular dystrophy, I would welcome the chance to cure it. I guess the question is how far do we take this?
Chemistry of Life
I checked out the link that was given and I like the definition for biochemistry that states that "Biochemistry is the chemistry of life, a bridge between biology and chemistry that studies how complex chemical reactions give rise to life." I feel like this is a simple way of explaining what biochemistry is.
Animations
I watched a few of the animations and I thought they were a little strange because I wasn't totally sure what I was looking at with a few of them. I did like the chain reaction animation because I felt like it was pretty self explanatory.
I have similar misgivings about gene therapy while at the same time can understand the concern and desire for loved ones to be 'disease' free and alive. It just seems to me that me can't really know for sure the long term consequences of mixing genes. It may not have an immediate affect on the person receiving gene therapy but what about their descendants? How will gene splicing effect human evolution as a whole? I start imaging gooey globs of weird life forms that could result from mixing the fundamental gene sequencing that took billions of years to evolve...but that humans rush to conquer in mere decades...spooky.
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