TORONTO, July 24 (LSN) Genetic research has its good side as well as its dangers, and a gene disease centre announced by the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto is being praised as a new opportunity to pursue research into debilitating genetic diseases. On Wednesday the hospital made public its plans to build a $5 million “Centre for Applied Genomics.”“There are now more than 4,500 human genetic diseases, but only 200 of the defective genes that cause diseases have been identified,” reported The Toronto Sun. Sick Kids scientists identified 12 of those genes with the hospital’s Dr. Lap-Chee Tsui discovering the cystic fibrosis gene almost 10 years ago. Researchers still hope to find the gene defects in diseases such as diabetes, cancers, asthma and heart disease. Unfortunately, knowledge of the genetic origins of diseases can also be used to conduct eugenic “search and destroy” missions of preborn children, a practise already widespread in Canada.
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SICK KIDS HOSPITAL ANNOUNCES NEW GENE RESEARCH CENTRE
TORONTO, July 24 (LSN) Genetic research has its good side as well as its dangers, and a gene disease centre announced by the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto is being praised as a new opportunity to pursue research into debilitating genetic diseases. On Wednesday the hospital made public its plans to build a $5 million “Centre for Applied Genomics.”“There are now more than 4,500 human genetic diseases, but only 200 of the defective genes that cause diseases have been identified,” reported The Toronto Sun. Sick Kids scientists identified 12 of those genes with the hospital’s Dr. Lap-Chee Tsui discovering […]
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