Curing ‘Magic’
By: Noah Walker and Jonathan Zerdin
Overview
Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome is a sexually transmitted disease that damages the immune system. Leaving people at risk for opportunistic infections. There is no cure for this virus but one is being developed. AIDS replicates itself by inserting its genetic code into your DNA. It is important to genetics because it is inserted into your DNA it is likely that it will be passed to offspring. Recently, two men that had HIV were put through a process called endogenization. This process stops the coding of the viruses genes. Shortly after testing there were no traces of AIDS. Since this a relatively new type of genetic engineering for AIDS most people are unaware of its benefits and risks but those who do think this is a acceptided kind of genetic engineering.
The Interview
We asked five different people about possible AIDS treatments.
Person 1: Sheri Walker
Q/ What are some benefits of curing AIDS?
A/ Saves lives, saves money, and assists the scientific community for future illnesses and helps prevent outbreaks.
Person 2: Trent Walker
Q/ What are some risks of curing AIDS?
A/ I’m no scientist but I don't think there would be any risk to curing AIDS.
Person 3: Mrs. Rosen
Q/ Do you think a cure for AIDS would be good or bad? Why?
A/ I think a cure for aids would be good the only problem i’d have is how they’d find that cure because genetic engineering is iffy
Person 4: Mr. Coudrie
Q/ What are your thoughts on an AIDS vaccine?
A/ An AIDS vaccine would be an encouraging advancement in science.
Person 5: Mr. Gu
Q/ How do you think a cure for AIDS would affect society?
A/ “I think a cure for AIDS would save lives and prevent diseases in the future”
Benefits
- One of the biggest benefits to treating aids would be that people would no longer have to worry about getting it.
- Altering genetic information to cure diseases would be acceptable and would make our lives better.
Risks
- Curing aids through genetic modification could have affect that we can't see until it’s been further researched.
Reflection
We think that curing AIDS would be moral because it is a deadly virus. Although this doesn't make any impact on us it affects a lot of other unfortunate people. I think that redesigning life to cure diseases is acceptable by most people.
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