Biotechnology
Produces Disease Fighting Gene Therapies

Biotechnology uses living organisms like bacteria, yeast, proteins, enzymes to perform bioprocesses in engineering, technology, and medicine. The new technology supplements natural medicine.

The technology helps make products like drugs, synthetic hormones and bulk foodstuffs. It can convert organic waste into fertilizers, use genetically altered bacteria to the clean up fossil fuels and to produce biofuels.

Prehistoric biotechnology has been around since ancient humans went from hunting and gathering food to farming and herding animals...

Thousands of years ago methods were developed to breed livestock, churn milk into cheese, leaven bread, ferment wine, cultivate grain, brew beer all without Biology or Genetics 101.

Primitive genetic modification and modern biotechnology each capitalize on the cell’s ability to manufacture DNA and proteins...

Today gene manipulation involves the insertion of functional genes into an unspecified human genomic location in order to replace a mutated gene...

• Gene Therapy : Treats and cures genetic and acquired diseases like bubble boy disease (SCID), HIV-AIDS, blindness, diabetes, heart disease, ADD ADHD, Parkinsons disease, sickle cell anemia, cystic fibrosis, hemophilia, Duchenne muscular dystrophy, cancer, Huntington's disease. It uses normal genes to supplement or replace defective ones or to bolster a normal function such as immunity.

  Clinical gene therapy trials are under way in the U.S. involving about 2,500 patients...

• Genetic Engineering: The manipulation of an organism's genome using modern DNA technology. It involves the introduction of foreign DNA or synthetic genes into the organism of interest.

  Recombinant DNA technology, gene manipulation and gene splicing are terms that apply to the direct manipulation of an organism's genes.

• Tissue Engineering: One of the goals of tissue engineering is to create artificial organs with biological material for patients that need transplants.

  Solid jawbones and tracheas have been grown from human stem cells towards this end. Several artificial urinary bladders actually have been grown in laboratories and transplanted successfully into human patients.

• Stem Cells Introduces new cells into damaged tissue in order to treat disease or injury. Stem cell treatments have the potential to change the face of human disease and alleviate suffering.
  
  Stem Cell Cultures
  That Can be Converted Into Different Cell Types
  

  Stem cells can be artificially grown and transformed into specialized cell types with characteristics consistent with tissues such as muscles or nerves through cell culture.

• Nanotechnology: Man-made (typically 1-100 billionths of a meter) particles for medical applications suited to their unique properties...

  Nanoparticles can be used to seek out cancer cells before tumors grow. Remove or replace broken parts of cell mechanisms with miniature, molecular-sized biological machine.

  Similar machines can be used as pumps or robots to deliver medicines where needed within the body. All of these ideas are feasible based on present technology.

• Electrotherapy is the use of electrical energy to treat a variety of conditions including the use of electrical devices such as deep brain stimulators for neurological disease. The term has also been applied specifically to the use of electric current to speed wound healing.

  The term electrotherapy, or electromagnetic therapy, has also been applied to a range of alternative medical devices and treatments. Microcurrent Warehouse supplies many of these devices.

Francis Crick, Rosaline Franklin and James Watson were the first drum majors in the current genetic procession with the discovery of helical structure and chemical makeup of DNA in 1953.

The sequencing the human genome, recombinant gene technology, stem cells, nanotechnology, exponential duplication of gene fragments and techniques that purify and isolate genes soon followed.

Out of these biotechnologies hundreds of disease genes have been identified. Many can be manipulated in gene, stem cell and nanotech therapies.