Gene therapy is a approach to treating diseases by modifying a person's genes toward a therapeutic goal. Gene therapy is being researched for its possible use as not only a treatment for the diseases a certain patient already has, but also for its possibility to prevent the formation of diseases altogether. The premise of gene therapy is based on correcting a disease at its root; fixing the abnormal genes that appear to lead to certain …showed first 75 words of 564 total…

…showed last 75 words of 564 total…the rich and elite in order to serve the already self perpetuating system. Could not a division form between man, separating those engineered, and those natural? Unless we wish to live in a world that is controlled more by scientists than personal free will and desire, the world must draw a definite and unyielding line between somatic cell gene therapy and germline gene therapy, and strongly support the primary, and denounce and attack the latter.