H SDSU Physics 180B
Spring PodCast Debate 2006
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  Genetic Screening – Based on scientific research -That genetic screening be used to produce genetically healthy or even "designer" babies.
         
                                                         
         
Genetic testing for inherited genetic variants is performed for several purposes: diagnosis of individuals with symptoms, determination of future disease risks in asymptomatic individuals, determination of genetic risks for progeny, guidance of medical treatment, research, and individual identification. Genetic testing for inherited genetic disease risks is an analysis of DNA, chromosomes, or gene products to provide specific information about variations in the number or form of genes or chromosomes in an individual or his or her progeny.
    Genetic information is information about specific variations in genes or chromosomes learned by genetic testing or by other means. DNA-based testing directly analyzes the DNA base sequence of a gene. Phenotypic testing identifies specific inherited gene variations indirectly, by detecting specific variations in the structure of a protein encoded by a gene or variations in a protein's enzyme activity.
    Karyotype analysis and fluorescent in situ hybridization analysis detect variation in form or number of chromosomes. New testing technologies that will promote genetic testing in health care include DNA chip technology and tandem mass spectrometry
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New Born Genetic Testing
  
To determine whether having a baby with a genetic disorder is likely, doctors ask the couple about disorders that family members have had and about the cause of death in family members. Information about three generations is usually needed. Doctors also ask about the health of all living first-degree relatives (parents, siblings, and children) and second-degree relatives (aunts, uncles, and grandparents). Information about miscarriages, stillborn babies, or babies who have died soon after birth is also helpful, as is information about intermarriages among relatives and ethnic background. If the family history is complicated, information about more distant relatives may be needed. Sometimes doctors review the medical records of relatives who may have had a genetic disorder.(more)
                                                 
1 - Genetic Screening
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Human Cloning – Based on scientific research -That Human Cloning be used to produce genetically healthy or even "designer" babies.
 
      MICHAEL WEST: Well, I hear two arguments. They're one, in general, playing God, are we - admittedly. And I'm really the first to admit the technologies that we're uncovering through cloning and stem cells and sequencing the human DNA are awesome in prospect. For the first time, we can imagine engineering animals and even humans in ways that don't exist in nature. We have that power within our hands today, and just a few years ago we had that power in our hands for the first time in the history of the world.
    This will be a debate which 100 years from now people looking back at this program will say those were the days when this whole new revolution occurred in biotechnology where we had, at the power of God, the ability to make new life forms. And that is awesome, and I think it will require years for us to sort out, and I think we have been working diligently to think about it, and progressing very cautiously first in the animal area. I'm particularly concerned about where we would go in human uses of such technology, and very concerned about that.
 
                                       
             
                                                 
    Until the creation of Dolly the sheep no country had any legislation banning human cloning for the simple reason that scientists believed it to b impossible to clone mammals from adult tissue. The production of Dolly, a sheep cloned from a mammary epithelial cell, proved that belief t be mistaken. When the newspapers began making dire predictions about ‘Hitler clones’ or ‘a new Frankenstein’s Monster’ the public panicked Calls for an outright ban on human cloning came from quarters ranging from the Vatican — arguing that human beings have a right to be “born in human way, and not in a laboratory” — to the US Biotechnology Industry Organisation. Members of the European and British parliaments called fo a moratorium on all research on animal and human cloning, while scientists warned that introducing over restrictive legislation would impede ne avenues of research. When all the fuss died down we ended up with cloning of animals for research purposes still being legal but human cloning i now banned under UK, US and EU law. But what is cloning anyway; is it immoral or unnatural and should it really be illegal to do it to humansIn basic terms, to clone an organism is to produce offspring of it that are genetically identical to the parent organism.
 
     This is simple in unicellular organisms such as bacteria and is their normal method of reproduction. It was previously thought that it was not possible to gain clones from the cells of an adult mammal because the cells have taken on specific roles within the body and are no longer able to produce any type of cell. However, in creating Dolly, the team at the Roslin Institute were able to take the DNA from an adult cell and inject it into a sheep egg cell that had the nucleus removed from it. This cell was able to form all the tissue types in an adult sheep and grew into a sheep that was genetically identical to its parent. Since the process of normal development in sheep is very similar to that in humans it is probable that the techniques used to form Dolly could be applied with the same degree of success in humans
                                               
2 - Human Cloning
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