After finally completing this amazing blog, I have realized a couple things. First, bioethics is boring, second it is the future of the world, and third it is full of controversy. Although my judgement may not be fair, it is true that I learned a lot during this project and that was the reason I chose this topic. After going through almost every possible different type of bioethics, there are some thing I would have done different. First I probably would have picked a different topics. But if I didn't have to change topics, I would have probably would have just focused on one type of bioethics instead of all of the types. Somethings I did enjoy was my interview with Carla Mooney and watching one of my multimedia sources. My final opinion on bioethics is that its pretty cool, but it can be boring.

My second multimedia source is called “Genetic Engineering”. This source is a lecture given at Yale University about genetic engineering. The professor starts off by talking about DNA. He says that “DNA, or deoxyribonucleic acid, is the hereditary material in humans and almost all other organisms.” After talking about the structure of DNA for about twenty minutes, he goes on to talk about genetic engineering. He talks about how the parts of the DNA can be changed and altered to what we want it to be. He finishes his lecture by talking about the future in genetic engineering and how the food we eat can be affected also.

I actually learned a lot from this multimedia source. Even though the whole thing was just a lecture and some parts were boring, it still was interesting to the point where I could learn from it. I would definitely recommend anyone interested in genetic engineering to watch this lecture.

genetic engineering." youtube. Web. 14 May 2010. .

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My fifth and final source is called “Gene Therapy” by an unknown source. This source begins to talk about the basics of gene therapy and what gene therapy is. Gene therapy is “a technique for correcting defective genes responsible for disease development”. The next section talks about how gene therapy works and the viruses encrypted on DNA. Then the article talks about the current status of gene therapy and what the FDA is doing to keep gene therapy safe and to make it useful for the public. The article continues to talk about what has held gene therapy back and some recent developments in gene therapy research.

The article “Gene Therapy” is very useful in the fact that it gives a lot of details on the recent research of gene therapy and what the FDA is trying to do to make gene therapy effective for the public. Some cons on the article is that I wish that there was some sort of controversial side talked about and the potential abuse of gene therapy could be seen with the public. Overall this is a very good article and a lot of good information is given.

"Gene Therapy." Human Genome Project Information. U.S. Department of Energy, Thursday,

June 11, 2009. Web. 22 Apr 2010.


http://www.ornl.gov/sci/techresources/Human_Genome/medicine/genetherapy.shtml

The interview I had was with the author of the book I read called Bioethics. I started off this 20 minute long phone conversation with asking her what inspired her to write this book. She responded by saying she aimed her book at young people, wanting young adults to be aware of what the future could hold in science. I continued on by asking many questions on genetic engineering and her opinion on the matter. She said that she believed that genetic engineer could be good with finding out diseases and things like that, but genetical engineered food could be a real problem, causing some major health problem. Another question I asked her was about was euthanasia. She said that she believed that if the person has a major illness that causes a lot of pain during the death, then they be allowed to choose if they wanted to live through the pain or not. We finished up the interview by just talking about school and how she was honored to be interview and she was glad that I called her.

Things I noted with Carla Mooney: she was very easy to talk too. I really like that even i kind of asked questions that could have ended in a one word response, she expanded on the question and gave me a lot of information. Also Mrs. Mooney was very nice, because even though I called her at a late time and put her on the spot, she acted as though it didn't bother her and she just went along with it.

Carla Mooney was also very informative. After talking to her for 20 minutes, I felt as though I had become an expert on any type of form of bioethics. Her talks about the future of bioethics helped me understand what could happen in the future and I feel greatful for getting to talk to her about genetic engineering and euthanasia.

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