Science Takes Over to Destroy

“There are those who say: 'the First World War was chemical; the Second World War was nuclear; and that the Third World War – God forbid – will be biological.'” (Foley) Throughout these recent years, humans have been fascinated with genetic engineering. The information of these are mostly public, for worse or for better? There is no such thing as just curiosity, some scientists think these as possibilities to save more human lives and possibly even find a cure for leukemia and cancer, nevertheless, there are people that think these as possibilities towards warfare – as biological weapons. Unfortunately, not all humans have good intentions, if terrorists are able to make bioweapons, then just like how Mackenzie Foley says in the article Genetically Engineered Bioweapons: A New Breed of Weapons for Modern Warfare it can turn our world into turmoil. If there are antidotes, there are always the diseases. For example in Animal Model Demonstrates Role for Metabolic Enzyme in Acute Myeloid Leukemia says they have possibly found a way to cleanse a person's body of leukemia cells, but then there is also the possibility that you can find a way to insert leukemia cells in a person's body.

In these recent years, mutations in two metabolic enzymes, known as IDH, have been identified as having 20 percent of all the acute myeloid leukemia. As the result, mutant IDH proteins have been offered as drug targets for this common adult leukemia. A recent group of scientists are using mice as models and they are testing the mutant IDH proteins by feeding them to mice that they had inserted leukemia in. They did this for about eight weeks and when they tested the mice again, they found that there were hardly any traces of leukemia in the mice. They ar...

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...ance the efficacy of bioweapons and they have found six ways to defend against the bioweapons, however; they would need to know the disease first before they can analyze it and find a vaccine or antidote. (Foley)

Advances in these research and experiments in genetic engineering are hardly helping us. Yes, we can possibly find cures to diseases that we never thought to be cured at other organisms' expenses. We benefit from that, but is it worth it. If we continue researching, we will dig up information not just used for finding cures, but also in harmful ways. It is impossible to atop humans from exploring into the world of bioweapons, and these weapons come from genetic engineering. Yes, some of the incurable diseases can kill people, however if bioweapons go into the wrong hands, they can kill even more people. They both from the same source – genetic engineering.