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During the 1970s information of the replication of bacteria and viruses and about DNA synthesis was used by scientists to begin the manipulation of genetics within a bacterium. Scientists combined human DNA with the DNA in a bacteria cell, to result in the birth of recombinant DNA technology; human DNA being the recombinant. Deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) contains the code for the production of specific proteins. The recombinant DNA technology resulted in Bacterial cells producing human proteins (insulin, antibodies etc) at rapid rates due to the nature of bacteria reproduction. American biochemists Stanley Cohen and Herbert Boyer were the first to take genetic information from one organism and place it in a different organism for commercial purposes in 1980. This technology gives way to several possibilities. Will this technology result in an advance in human abilities and the end of many ill diseases? If so, what is the price to pay?
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