Human Genome Sequencing Consortium
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The Human Genome Sequencing Consortium is a group put together to discuss the future of human genome sequencing. Commonly known as the Human Genome project, scientists such as Allison and Roddenberry are working together to bring together this somewhat controversial process. While this process mostly has to do with cloning, many people are skeptical on the moral application of this outstanding and interesting technology. Some of the applications of human genome sequencing such as rice cloning to help the hungry and the rice genome project are some of the controversial issues that are on trial all over the world.
While human genome sequencing is an advent of human technology the differential for this problem is still yet to be seen. The project would help with diseases such as cf or cystic fibrosis. With different machines and technology this will be one of the most challenging issues in the next twenty years. By using suppression therapy scientists will be able to engineer cloning in terms of rice reproduction as well as human genome suppression to weed off diseases. The most important and controversial part of the human genome sequencing project is the replication and weeding out of particular diseases. Some scientists in the consortium believe that by weeding out diseases in humans as well as plants and animals is ethically wrong.
By weeding out diseases it can lead to moral dilemmas and lead to the engineering of perfect humans as well as plants and animals. Some people believe that imperfection is the spice of life, while others who are parents of disabled children would be happy for normal lives. There is much debate in this issue. It comes down to whether or not people can agree and not take the idea of perfection too far. Movies like Gattica show the harm of genome sequencing because it relies too much on making the idea of a perfect society full of perfect plants, animals, and people.
The idea of human genome sequencing is something that many people are not very comfortable with at the moment and with all the restrictions in the world today it seems that it will be a very long time before anyone comes to agreement on how to solve this issue. It will most definitely be a long time before the consortium will be able to convince much of the nation and the world that this is a great idea or a horrible idea for the future of the world. It all depends on how the use of human free will goes in terms of marketing and handling this very delicate issue. Marketing will be the hardest part, as well as the money part – each of these can be dangerous or beneficial.
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