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Essay Archive - Genetic Engineering: Correcting the Code
Genetic Engineering: Correcting the Code
Often there is a sudden breakthrough in a field of sciences, a key
moment, an experiment, an event that changes people's lives all over the
world. In September of 1990, the first genetic treatment of a human being
with an inherited illness was they key moment or event for genetics. They
injection of a genetically altered white blood cells into the child's body
was little more than a transfusion. The child sat on a bed, an intravenous
tube was hooked to her arm and her own white blood cells were infused into
her circulation. Yet those white blood cells w....
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