to humans. Genetic engineering involves splicing and recombining Deoxyribose Nucleic Acid (DNA) to create or fix a gene on a chromosome. Many treatment drugs have been made through a procedure known as gene splicing. Gene splicing is a method in which whole genes or parts of genes are put into bacteria where they are reproduced when the bacteria divide. In 1982, two advancements in gene splicing were made; Interferon, a drug used to treat cancer, and Humulin, a synthetic form of insulin used to treat diabetes, were produced through gene splicing (Hyde 44). According to Hyde's book, Cloning and the New Genetics, before gene splicing was used it took twenty steer and eighty hog pancreases to produce a year's supply of insulin for one person. This may not sound like much, but when you consider the fact that approximately sixty million people have diabetes worldwide that is a lot of animals whose lives have been saved (61). Another treatment greatly affected by genetic engineering is Human Growth Hormone (HGH). Without HGH, children's growth is decreased so much they tend to look dwarfed. Instead of extracting the pituitary glands from fifty cadavers per one child, genetic engineering now allows scientists to use the common bacteria E. Coli to produce HGH (62). . Both gene therapy and cloning are extremely important for the advancement of humans. According to D. J. Weatherall's book, The New Genetics and Clinical Practice: "Finally, and perhaps most important[ly] in the long [run], these new analytical techniques will broaden the scope of the genetic analysis of human disease to encompass the cell and molecular biology of a variety of the major killers of western societies, in particular vascular disease, diabetes, cancer, rheumatic disease, and major psychiatric disorders." (2) Without these new technologies many people would die, and in order to continue with these technologies, we need to restrict only the parts that are harmful or unet...
