Biotechnologia medyczna na początku XXI wieku – możliwości, nadzieje, złudzenia

Biotechnologia medyczna na początku XXI wieku – możliwości, nadzieje, złudzenia

Medical Biotechnology at the Beginning of the 21st Century – Possibilities, Hopes and Illusions

Józef Dulak

Sprawy nauki

str. 13-24

polski

artykuł

Medical biotechnology is an application of the results of studies of molecular processes in living organisms for practical purposes, especially for diagnostics and disease treatment. Progress in medical biotechnology is tightly connected with the development of genetic engineering, which enables more and more precise manipulation of genetic material. This article presents an outline of issues related to gene therapy and stem cells, a problem being in the centre of interest not only of scientists and physicians, but also raising great expectations of the society. The purpose of the article is not only to draw attention to the perspectives of medical biotechnology but also to point out certain problems and limitations, however resulting not from often exaggerated (alleged) threats of modern technologies, but because of excessive expectations, incomprehension of the essence of science and of non-scientific factors influencing scientific studies.

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