rs of human cloning, many people are unaware of the hidden possibilities of gene cloning. By gene cloning, scientists mean the manipulation of the human blueprint; the gene. Genes have been a mystery to scientists for years, while they seem to hold the answer to why the human body has the robustness that is does, the human gene also seems to be the downfall of the human body. Many crippling and often times fatal diseases such as Tay-Sachs Disease, Parkinsons Disease, Cystic Fibrosis and Downs Syndrome are clearly related to defective human genes being passed down from generation to generation in the mitochondria. Cloning may hold the key to a cure for some of these debilitating diseases. The reason that a genetic disease is so crippling is because the human system is unable to produce certain chemicals because of a defective gene coding, chemicals that are necessary for the human body to function normally. Often times, a child might inherit a genetic disease from parents who do not have that particular disease at all. However, if both parents have a defective gene, they can pass a disease on to their children without even knowing it (Grace 39). Gene Therapy as it is known was first employed in 1990 with a rare disease that was caused by the lack of a human enzyme known as ADA (adenosine deaminase). People who lack a normal level of this enzyme are at a high risk of early cancer and many die early in life. Scientists learned that by injecting a normal ADA gene into human T-cells that lacked ADA, that the enzymes production was boosted by 25% in these defective cells, more than enough to correct the conditions caused by ADA deficiency, (72) stated science writer Eric Grace in his book Biotechnology Unzipped. Bio-scientists then used this new technology on sufferers of ADA deficiency who, with a regimen of infusion with ADA gene-corrected cells every one or two months, drastically improved. The key to eliminating genetic disorde...
