Tuesday, December 11, 2007

Genetic road to super-immunity

Link:http://www.newscientist.com/channel/health/mg19325921.800-genetic-road-to-superimmunity.html

Summary: In this passage, a man named Mark Origer's life was save by genetic engineering. The doctors took cells from his body, re-implanted them and they destroyed his tumors. He is now living all because of genetic engineering.

Questions:
What process is being used in the article?The removing of cells
What is the purpose of genetic engineering in this article?To remove cells that are not good
List three things you learned from this article in your own words.
1) that genetic engineering can save someone's life
2)that skin cancer can spread to the liver
What impact would the absence of this process have on humanity?If this was not around, then this amn would have died . This process rids the body of bad cells.

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