Will Grant
04/22/19
Core Bio
Current Event 9
“Gene Therapy Restores Immunity in Infants with Rare Immunodeficiency Disease.” ScienceDaily, ScienceDaily, 17 Apr. 2019, www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/04/190417171019.htm.
After reading, “Gene Therapy Restores Immunity in Infants with Rare Immunodeficiency Disease,” I learned about a trial that changed science. This trial involved 8 infants that had inherited disorders that cause immune cells too not fight disease as well. The trial performed gene therapy on these infants and the results were incredible. They found that the gene therapy corrected the immunodeficiency in the infants. After the therapy infants immune systems started growing and working normal in just two years. The immune system growth in infants is trivial as this is a time where they are weakest. That's why this clinic trial is a major step for immunodeficiency.
This will have a major effect on society as it had on the 8 infants. With proper training doctors everywhere will be able to help infants with immunodeficiencies much better than what was previously possible. Infants are subject to many disease as the immune system is not fully grown yet. This means immunodeficiency could mean death if not treated for infants. Not only is this gene therapy saving time, it's also saving lives.
This article was a very good read. One of the strengths I saw with it, was its way of explaining the effect on society that the trials had. Sometimes these articles say things that sound important but don’t mean anything but this article did not do that. One of the weaknesses though was some of the thing that were said could have been explained a little better. I know these articles might not be written for a high schooler, but next time if they could go more into depth about certain genes and immune diseases that were not explained
Ava Chiang
ReplyDelete4/30/19
Biology Odd / C
Current Event 10
“Gene Therapy Restores Immunity in Infants with Rare Immunodeficiency Disease.” ScienceDaily, ScienceDaily, 17 Apr. 2019, www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/04/190417171019.htm.
Will’s review of the article “Gene Therapy Restores Immunity in Infants with Rare Immunodeficiency Disease” was a good read and very education. The summary of the article was very concise and every sentence had useful information in it, there were no filler sentences. Will was very clear on what this research was about when he said “gene therapy corrected the immunodeficiency in the infants” that had “inherited disorders that cause immune cells too not fight disease as well.” He also stated the significance of this research by stating that “the immune system growth in infants is trivial as this is a time where they are weakest” and how the findings of this research can save lives.
Despite the many positive aspects of Will’s review, there are still places where he can improve. I like how his summary of the article was short and to the point but he could’ve given more details. For example; what kind of illnesses can infant immunodeficiency cause? In addition, he had a few typos that didn’t affect the readability of his review but if they were corrected, it would make the flow smoother. An example would be; “that cause immune cells too not fight disease as well.”
This review was very educational for me and a great learning experience. I chose this article because we’re learning about gene and chromosomal mutations in class right now so I thought it would a interesting read. In this article I learned how recent scientific developments can correct immunodeficiency caused by inherited genetic disorders. Not only could this save a lot of lives but it's also a step in genetic engineering and shows that maybe other genetic diseases can be cured too.