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Using Bioethics to Uncover the 3 C’s in Medical Breakthroughs

By IGI Global on Sep 29, 2010
With technological advancements and medical breakthroughs happening every day, researchers are closer to finding cures, causes, and characteristics of common diseases and ailments through genetic research.

Scientists recently released updates on tracking genetic variants used to measure Alzheimer's disease evolution. Following patients with particular biomarkers, the study found that patients carrying a particular minor allele had their Alzheimer's progress six times faster than those carrying the corresponding major allele. Associations such as this one give researchers hope that continued study of genetic makeup will eventually bring them closer to being able to heed off Alzheimer's in certain patients.

"This study suggests that different molecular mechanisms are involved in the development and progression of AD. Whilst variants associated with onset and susceptibility might eventually be useful for risk prediction and prevention, variants associated with progression could more immediately be useful for predicting prognosis and stratifying patients in clinical trials."- Dr Philippa Brice, PHG Foundation


( www.phgfoundation.org/news/5690/)

With all genetic studies, ethics plays a large role in the development of new technologies and tests. IGI Global's latest research release, Genomics and Bioethics: Interdisciplinary Perspectives, Technologies and Advancements, explores just that.

Editor Soraj Hongladarom, Chulalongkorn University, Thailand explains the premise of her edited publication, "As the Internet is deeply transformative in how we think and how we relate to one another in the social world, biotechnology and genetic sciences are poised to transform the very constitution of our own physical bodies themselves. The new era in life sciences and biotechnology are fast unfolding itself before our very eyes."

Genomics and Bioethics: Interdisciplinary Perspectives, Technologies and Advancements contributes to the existing gap in interdisciplinary research on comparative studies of cultural, social and ethical implications of genomics and bioinformatics. Relevant and newsworthy topics such as direct-to-consumer genetic testing, moral deliberation over the status of the embryo, and the concept of ‘property' in genetics and databanking, are presented and explained. For more information on this title please visit www.igi-global.com/Bookstore/TitleDetails.aspx?TitleId=41784.

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