Gene Therapy 基因治疗.ppt

Look at these patients faces. One day, they will not suffer from diseases and live in a happy normal life. * On the contrary, some people still argue the practice of gene therapy from ethical, religious and medical aspects. * From ethical aspect, just imagine one day, our athletes who use gene therapy as a tool to improve their performance in the Olympic Games which hold the rule of fairness. What a terrible picture like this. Moreover, if people can change their genes readily in the future, it will be easier for criminals to change their DNA, or unique identity, to disguise them in order to escape from the law. * This belief is held by many people in the world, especially among westerns, that it is God who created mankind. * That how can mankind dispute the God’s masterpiece. So, commonly, gene therapy is opposed by many religious people. * The cost of gene therapy is also a very considerable problem which we should attach much attention. Look at the poor children in the picture, how can they, if they get certain diseases that need gene therapy, pay for the huge amount of money. That is total unpractical ,and that means the gene therapy can only serve the rich. How can a therapy only serve the rich. * To sum up,no matter how ardent the divergence is, science will always keep going ahead as it did in the past. With the completeness of the Human Genome Project in 2003 (Human genome project, 2008), and other advance of science, people have reasons to have a faith that mankind can grip their own destiny. Time will demonstrate whether gene therapy will bring miracles or disasters. * GAC1 Clarence Introduction What is a gene? basic unit of heredity in a living organism What is gene therapy hereditary diseases insertion of genes - individuals cells tissues a defective mutant allele is replaced with a functional one How it works “normal” gene - patient’s “abnormal” one target cells by a vector retroviruses adenoviruses adeno-associated viruses herpes simplex viruses