ht be best for treatment, said lead author Dr. Anthony W.S. Chan (Reuters 2). Diseases such as diabetes, Parkinsons, muscular dystrophy, cancers, HIV, hemophilia, and Alzheimers are a few which scientists hope to research after integration in a nonhuman primate. Enough research on transgenesis would allow scientists to determine how to disable a disease genetically and discover a cure. We wouldn't want to make a monkey that carries a disease unless we knew there was a cure right in front of us. Our goal isnt to make sick monkeys. Our goal is to eradicate diseases, [Dr. Schatten] said (Reuters 1). Once the gene for a specific illness is introduced into the monkey genome, scientists can experiment and figure out how to prevent the illness form existing in the genome. The National Institutes of Health, which funded the research, apparently supports the concept of modifying monkey genomes with prospect of curing diseases by utilizing non-human primates. If fluorescence can be incorporated within the genome of a primate, inevitably--as technology flourishes--other genes have the possibility. If one can isolate and insert a gene from a jellyfish into a monkey, then one can infer doing the same with a human genes for particular diseases.Once humans are involved in the genetic game, the future can seem promising or foreboding. The human genome is on the verge of being completely mapped and identified. As of now 90% of genes on every chromosome has been documented and that number is increasing by the efforts of the Human Genome Project, Celera Genomics and other organizations. Genetic modification of the human genome is becoming a great concern. Humans, monkeys, and apes are primates. Since a primate was modified, there is a dubious understanding whether the same techniques can be used to alter human embryos. One issue revolves around the possibility of parents to choose how to influence the genetic makeup of their baby in their best...
