Digital immersion 9: October 2011

Wednesday, October 19, 2011

Making a decision for Genetown

I think developing this new research facility to conduct research on human embryos in hope of curing diseases is a good idea.

Point 1: Offers job opportunities
When they create the research facility the provide all different types of jobs. This benefits the community in many ways by providing the people of the community with jobs and learning experience. When the facility is finished

Point 2: impact on reproduction technologies
The increase in knowledge of reproduction technologies has increased the amount of people who can have children who wouldn't be able to without reproductive technologies. For instance some men cannot produce enough sperm and some women cannot produce enough hormones. With reproductive technology doctors can take eggs from the women and fertilizing them with sperm and returning the embryos to the uterus. other ways are Artificial insemination which is when doctors collect sperm from a male and inject it into the female.

Point 3: Debate if embryos are being wasted
their is always the debate that their are more embryos created than needed and what happens to them after.With the use of cryopreservation, embryos can be frozen in liquid
nitrogen which can be useful for stem cell and gene therapy research. people think its like murder but actually its not because they are not fertilized with sperm which makes it not human.