In gene therapy, the nucleic acid is delivered therapeutically to the patient in order to treat a disease. The defective genes are replaced by the normal genes which can be used to correct genetic disorders. In the given case, gene therapy is being used to cure SCID in children. These children may have died within two years of the disease being diagnosed.
If gene therapy is the only method to cure such individuals, it can be used to treat these children. However, the effects of the gene therapy need to be thoroughly experimented. Any drug needs to be clinically examined and tested for safety. In this case, the doctors knew that children with X1 developed leukemia after treatment. So, the moral issue is that whether the doctor has decided to do the correct task.
Before the treatment with the gene therapy, the method had to be experimented well upon animals or in the similar conditions which the boy has suffered from. But sometimes, a treatment may be used even if a small risk is involved. In case, gene therapy was the only method to treat these children, it is better to try gene therapy because something is better than nothing and these children would have died within 2 years. These facts change the morality about using gene therapy because 14 out of 16 children were able to survive and lead a normal life. The success rate was high.
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I. Case Study Mr. and Mrs. Vanderveer owned a farm in the Hudson Valley in lower New York State. They were both descended from Dutch settlers who came to Hudson Valley in the mid-17th century. There were multiple consanguineous marriages among their ancestors, and Mr. and Mrs. Vanderveer were distantly related to each other. At the time of this case, they had five children- three girls and two boys. Their youngest daughter, Susan, was 10 months old when she developed...
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