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The case for and against genetic engineering  

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The case for and against genetic engineering I will look at the case for and against the use of genetic engineering and make a conclusion on whether or not I believe that it is right. As I believe in genetic engineering, I will start buy looking at the reasons that support it. The main reason that I support genetic engineering is that this technology has dramatically improved our ability to treat and even cure diseases and gentic disorders. If mRNA is isolated and incubated with reverse transcriptase, copies of the insulin genes can be produced. Density gradient centrifugation is used that allows large amount of insulin to be extracted. The reason why this is important is that "it has been estimated that 60 million people in the world who have diabetes and who require daily injections of insulin" and "genetically engineered insulin human insulin is cheaper to produce and less likely to...

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