Deborah Harrell wrote: > Viruses are really interesting, and a bit scary, to > study. If anyone's curious, I could find a site or > two to post. > > Insinuated Into Our Genes Maru
At the moment I find gene therapy a bit scary. Especially after watching a documentary about how especially in the US (one of the leading countries doing research in that area) the amount of intertwinement between financial benefit and research causes really big problems for patients. You cannot trust the doc because he might gain a couple a billions from you getting the one lucky treatment. If you don't, ah well tough luck. What shocked me even more is that even after such a tangle, resulting in dire consequences for a patient is found, there is nothing much done about it except maybe a little slap on the wrist and some bad publicity. I find that very disturbing and not very trust inspiring for the future. I do feel we need legislation and we need the current legeslation to be very rigidly enforced untill the technique is much better understood than it is now and the human related research is out of its infancy. Then it might become a trusted and widely applied tool to improve and even save a lot of lives. Sonja ROU: All is fair in war and ... commerce. ;o) _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
