Genetic Engineering: the Wave of the Future

Genetic Engineering: The Wave of the Future

You are sitting in the doctor’s office waiting to hear the biggest news of your life. Your wife, who is pregnant, begins the tests and doctor follow-ups to make sure your wife and child are healthy. Every appointment that is attended during those nine months, the parents wish to hear two things: the child is healthy and the mother is as well. Receiving news that your child will be born with a disease, which may take his life or impair the quality of his life, is something no one should feel. Now imagine what follows is not a pamphlet or phone number to a help line, but a nurse with a needle coming into the room. The doctor says your child is as healthy as they come now, a disease that may have took the life of millions of children has now been reduce to nothing and a shot as normal as a vaccine you or I get for the flu will be inserted into the womb changing the child’s DNA giving his body the ability to fight off this disease. [reword this last sentence. I know what you are trying to say, but there seems to be problems with the tense. Also, this is a run-on sentence. Nevertheless. Very effective anecdote]

Genetic engineering is “the science of changing how a living creature or plant develops by changing the information in its genes” ( [Author]1). Genetic engineering techniques have been experimented with in many different areas including in bacteria, naturally produced drugs, plants, livestock, and laboratory animals. True, genetic engineering can have risks, but overall, the medical advantages far out way the risk. [Is this last sentence your thesis? If so, you might want to change it around a bit. For example: perhaps you may say—Although genetic engineering is risky and …, there are medical advantages , _________, _________]

Genetic engineering has only become possible and more understandable very recently. Since scientists have been able to map out most of the gene locations in DNA, they have discovered ways...