As new biotechnology discoveries are made, governments develop regulations, legislation and guidelines to minimise risk to people and the environment. New Zealand organisations involved in research have their own ethics committees to ensure research involving humans and animals meets ethical guidelines.
Making decisions about new biotechnology developments is not easy. Using different ethical frameworks can help you consider the issues and make informed decisions. Try using the Ethics thinking toolkit to help you explore an ethical issue. See the video Common ethical frameworks. DNA from the beginning — simple explanations of the concepts of DNA and the chronological development of scientific understanding, including animations, video and audio.
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A new generation of technologies: bio-remediation, bio-regeneration and bio-augmentation are being developed, offering the potential to not only further restore these resources, but also augment their potential. When we analyze the roughly 3 billion base pairs in such a sequence we find that we differ from each other in several million of these base pairs.
In the vast majority of cases these difference do not cause any issues but in rare cases they cause disease, or susceptibility to disease. Medical research and practice will increasingly be driven by our understanding of such genetic variations together with their phenotypic consequences. The full list follows below: Bio-based sustainable production of chemicals, energy, fuels and materials Through the last century, human activity has depleted approximately half of the world's reserves of fossil hydrocarbons.
Engineering sustainable food production The continuing increase in our numbers and affluence are posing growing challenges to the ability of humanity to produce adequate food as well as feed, and now fuel. Non-resource draining zero waste bio-processing The sustainable goal of zero waste may become a reality with biotechnology. Using carbon dioxide as a raw material Biotechnology is poised to contribute solutions to mitigate the growing threat of rising CO2 levels.
Regenerative medicine Regenerative medicine has become increasingly important due to both increased longevity and treatment of injury. Rapid and precise development and manufacturing of medicine and vaccines A global pandemic remains one of the most real and serious threats to humanity. Accurate, fast, cheap, and personalized diagnostics and prognostics Identification of better targets and combining nanotechnology and information technology it will be possible to develop rapid, accurate, personalized and inexpensive diagnostics and prognostics systems.
That price tag could be as high as we have to go, thanks to biotechnology. I think all of these will become rather routine. So by , I think it is realistic to say that biotechnology will become a part of our life, from drugs, medicine and therapeutics to environmentally friendly chemicals, fuels and materials. The views expressed in this article are those of the author alone and not the World Economic Forum.
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Genome editing, especially when it is performed on people, will always carry ethical questions. Genetic counseling can provide advice on heritable diseases, and genetic screening of workers in possible risk industries is being considered.
DNA probes are providing breakthroughs in early diagnosis of disease. As detection of genetic predispositions becomes more predictable, a great deal may be known at birth of an individual's prospects in life. The moral question then arises as to who has access to this information and how this will affect the individual's quality of life. Is Biotechnology Safe? Many people have voiced concern about biotechnology and genetic engineering. Scientists have considered the issue of safety over recent years.
A special committee of the National Academy of Sciences specifically reviewed the issues on the introduction into the environment of organisms genetically engineered using recombinant DNA technology. They concluded that "there is no evidence that unique hazards exist either in the use of R-DNA technique or in the transfer of genes between unrelated organisms," and that "the risks associated with the introduction of R-DNA engineered organisms are the same kind as those associated with the introduction of unmodified organisms.
They also stated that there is adequate scientific knowledge to guide the safe and prudent use of such organisms outside research laboratories.
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