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Biotechnology: Benefits and Ethical Issues

Biotechnology has revolutionized disease treatment by allowing genetic manipulation and gene therapy to cure hereditary diseases. However, it also raises important ethical issues regarding how it may impact social structures like families and employment. While biotechnology has benefits like new drug development and production, it is important to continue testing and learning about both its benefits and potential harms to ensure it is used safely and for medical purposes.

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Biotechnology: Benefits and Ethical Issues

Biotechnology has revolutionized disease treatment by allowing genetic manipulation and gene therapy to cure hereditary diseases. However, it also raises important ethical issues regarding how it may impact social structures like families and employment. While biotechnology has benefits like new drug development and production, it is important to continue testing and learning about both its benefits and potential harms to ensure it is used safely and for medical purposes.

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Biotechnology

By: Indrias beyene


Revolution
Many new created possibilities for curing disease and manipulating our genetics
heritage. It could simply be used for a medical purpose. Knowing the genetic
makeup of the species, the genetic basis of heritable disease, and the invention of
technology to manipulate and fix mutant genes provides methods to treat the
disease.
Ethical problems
Biotechnology has also created numerous ethical problem that need close
philosophical attention.

This technology raises important ethical issues in the social structures including
families, preventive medicine, employment, health insurance etc.
Benefits
- Revolutionized the process of drug manufacture, diagnosis and treatment and
the production of animal models for human disease
- Tremendous potential for creating new drugs and treatment
- Social cohesion intercultural orientation vs xenophobia
- Innovation and creativity social relevance of new, unfamiliar ideas
- Intercultural education
- Health beliefs: eicical treatments vs spiritual ntevent
Conclusion
Biotechnology is both beneficial and harmful to the global population and the world
itself. Testing should continue and we shall continue to learn about the works of
science and the interchanges with nature. We should be aware of what it is we are
doing and make sure we know what to expect.

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