DNA The Stuff Life is Made Of

DNA: The Stuff Life is Made Of In 1995, at the Roslin Institute, near Edinburgh, Scotland, the birth of two lambs heralded what many scientists believe to be a period of revolutionary opportunities in biology and medicine. Megan and Morag, both carried fully to term by a surrogate mother, were not produced from the union of a sperm and an egg. Instead, their genetic material came from cultured cells originally developed from a nine-day-old embryo. That …

…social implications. Through research of the human genome, scientists hope to learn the underlying causes of many genetic diseases. Genetic information might also be used to predict sensitivities to various industrial or environmental agents. Imagine being able to figure out that a certain chemical is harmful to the human body before having someone die from being exposed to it. The possibilities of genetic engineering are endless and many good things can come from researching it.