Paper #2 Assignment: You will write a 3 - 4 page paper identifying the ethical issues involved in your topic. You can take the approach of pro and con or you can advocate for one side. If you are...

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Paper #2 Assignment:


You will write a 3 - 4 page paper identifying the ethical issues involved in your topic. You can take the approach of pro and con or you can advocate for one side. If you are advocating for one position, you should also identify the opposition argument.


Please use at least five reputable sources and make sure that you have properly cited ideas that are not your own. Your papers should be 12 pt. font, and double spaced. The UW-Superior Writing Center is a good place to go for help with your writing. They have online appointments available.


You can find topics by looking at a local paper like the Duluth News Tribune, a national paper like the New York Times or the Wall Street Journal and an international paper like the Financial Times.



This is the chosen topic:


https://madison.com/wsj/news/local/health-med-fit/gene-editing-transforms-biology-raises-ethical-questions/article_7e11f336-1b68-5c28-88e0-de34ed146d38.html

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Answer To: Paper #2 Assignment: You will write a 3 - 4 page paper identifying the ethical issues involved in...

Shalini answered on Nov 10 2021
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Pros And Cons Of Gene Editing                                 6
PROS AND CONS OF GENE EDITING
Introduction
Ethics is something, which creates a wall between the right and wrong and provide cert
ain assumptions, facts that help in identifying acts and notions on the parameters of being right or wrong. The topic selected here in the paper is gene editing transforms biology, though in the changing world of science it is a complete new revolution. The scientists have found several ways to use the genes to create something new. Although, it is quite fair as per the scientists and researchers, there are several ethical issues raised in the society and the people.
There are several benefits of it as well as there were certain question marks on it as the whole process is not considered ethical according to some group of society (Jasanoff & Hurlbut, 2018).
Pros of Gene Editing-
· The Gene Editing Technique is a revolution which tends to transform the biology and give a whole new look.
· The scientist’s would be using the gene technique to engineer the pigs with diabetes, obesity and high cholesterol in order to test the treatment in animals with major risk factors for heart disease.
· The scientists are aiming to grow nitrogen fertilizer in some certain crops naturally by altering its DNA (Wisconsin State Journal, 2016).
· The Gene editing technique is considered as one of the major invention for treating several chronicle disease.
· The new technology evolved CRISPR-Cas9 is considered as one of the cheapest way to silencing, deleting or modifying a gene.
· The CRISPR technology is considered as one of the most effective therapeutics for the treatment of cancer (Gupta, 2019).
· The scientists are seeing this technology as one of the finest tool in curing several genetic diseases that includes diabetes,...
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