CITE THE MAJOR POINTS AND AGAINST HUMAN GENE THERAPY

The arguments for gene therapy may be as follows:

Gene therapy may lead to reverting genetically-prone illnesses, hence saving us from many forms of cancers and other inherited diseases.

Gene therapy helps us understand better the way our bodies defend themselves Gene therapy will make us more healthy Gene therapy will help humans by decreasing the amount of deaths and illnessess related

to genetic conditions.

Arguments against it include:

To some, playing with our genes is like trying to play God, and trying to manipulate nature

Gene therapy can also go wrong and produce terrible mutations There is not sufficient background studies to prove that genetic therapy is permanent, nor

100% effective. Gene therapy many not be the solution to reverting diseases, and maybe we are placing it

on a pedestal, where it may not belong.

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