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A special type of virus, called a "retrovirus", can insert genes into someone's DNA. It could conceivably insert healthy genes to repair the mutations.
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A patient has a rare genetic disease What might doctors use to treat her?
Doctors may use a bacteriophage.
What is a genetic disease?
A disease that you can transfer to your child by the DNA that you give.It is a disease that is encoded into your DNA and some of your old family members may show it or some of your kids might show it too.
How might the lack of genetic diversity found in populations of endangered species might hinder their recovery?
Lack of genetic diversity can becomes a problem when a species is hit with infectious diseases. If all the organisms are very similar, then it is very likely that they will all be affected by the same disease, thus destroying the species as a whole. In species with high amounts of genetic diversity, a disease may destroy a section of the population, but many individuals will be resistant to the disease.
What is all timers disease?
Actually, it's alzheimers. That might help!
What organism might successfully be able to insert human genes into the DNA of individuals who suffer from a genetic illness?
Viruses are generally used as that type of vector here.
Large scale study of proteins that contain the genetic material?
You might need to re-phrase your question. At the moment it sounds like you're talking about viruses?
What factors have kept gene therapy from becoming an effective treatment for genetic disease?
There are a number of factors which have kept gene therapy from becoming an effective treatment for genetic disease. The viral rectors are the main problems which might make gene therapy to cause diseases.
What is genetic diseases?
A disease that you can transfer to your child by the DNA that you give.It is a disease that is encoded into your DNA and some of your old family members may show it or some of your kids might show it too.
Where would viruses most likely grow?
Viruses can only live in living organisms (viruses themselves are not actually living). They might infect cells in our body, such as throat cells (infection of throat cells causes sore throat).
Identify a disease or disorder and explain hoe it might be controlled by genetic engineering?
Cancer is a disease that might be controlled by genetic engineering by adding a type of gene into the person that stops the cancer.
Is Alzheimer's Disease a genetic disorder?
Yes and no. see if your grand parents had it, there could be a chance that you might develope alzheimer's disease, but you might also develope alzheimer's disease just from old age. So from that, under any circumstances, there is the chance of developing alzheimer's anytime after the 40-50 y/o mark.
Should genetic screening be done if there are problems during the pregnancy?
Some people are against it while others are for it. Genetic screening can give a couple a choice to terminate pregnancy that has a fetus with genetic disease such as cystic fibrosis. If a child would be brought up with cystic fibrosis, the parents would have to constantly pay for treatment and support their child for his/her entire life. People with cystic fibrosis don't live very long so in this case genetic screening would be a good thing to carry out in order to prevent a life of suffer. However, ethical issues arise if you terminate pregnancy. It isn't right to destroy potential life. Besides that we have false negatives or false positives. The results carried out by genetic screening might be wrong. The tests might say the fetus does have the genetic disease while actually it might not carry it. This could cause the couple to terminate pregnancy even though the fetus was healthy. This would be a false positive. The tests might say that the child doesn't have a genetic disease. The couple would expect a healthy baby however would thenreceive one with a disorder. This would be called a false negative.Also, genetic screening might increase the risk of spontaneous abortion.Amniocentesis (a method of genetic screening) increases chances by around 1%. The tests would be carried out late in pregnancy, so the termination of results would be pretty traumatic for the couple.
