Last week, the news read, UK to pass a law legally allowing
for a three parent baby. At first, I
thought to myself is that even possible? Reading further, I realized it has
something to do with mitochondrial engineering to prevent the mitochondrial diseases
in children. There is a lot of debate on crossing ethical boundaries and the
long term effects of this process.
According to an article I read, in "The
Independent," mitochondrial disorder is said to be in 1 in 200 children,
whereas only 1 in 10000 severely affected.
I am no expert, but shouldn’t scientist try and put in more of an
effort to try and find cures for diseases like Aids, Cancer and solutions for
eradication of hunger and poverty which affects millions of children around the
world.
I personally feel that since a lot of people are getting
affected by these diseases, scientists along with the help of the government
should pay a little more attention towards eliminating those problems first.
Don’t you?
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