For this blog, I am going to go into detail about my real world example and the connection I have made using it. My real world example that relates to my episode is genetic engineering. In the real world, genetics is something that has been played with for at least forty years now. It starts back in the 1970s when a scientist genetically modified some lab mice. It took a few years to work out the kinks and have the genes that were modified passed down to that mouse’s offspring. Now that this has been perfected, the next step is, as it usually is in many experiments, to work out the experimental process so that it can be safe and effective for human beings. As we have progressed from this experiment towards the future, genetic engineering has split. Now there is gene modification and gene cloning. Cloning became more realistic for humans after the first mammal was successfully cloned. This mammal was a famous sheep named Dolly and even though she lived for only half the amount of years as expected for her, she is still considered a monumental step and success. Gene modification is the more interesting of the two in my opinion. With cloning, we can only get duplicates of what we already have, but with genetic modification, we get new things that we haven’t seen before. Genetic modification allows us to discover new ways in fighting off diseases and disorders. As of yet there is nothing that can cure cancer, but altering genes in mice to produce genes that can help boost human immune systems is a great start and is where we currently are at right now.
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