Dear City College Times Editors,<\/p>\n
Whilst reading your article opinion\u00a0\u201cMaking perfect babies,\u201d I found the\u00a0following issues:<\/p>\n
1. There is no author for the opinion\/\u00a0article. In other words, the person who\u00a0wrote such article\/opinion is nowhere to\u00a0be found.<\/p>\n
2. Your statement is wrong: \u201cGenes\u00a0define our appearance and can contribute\u00a0to our health but it does not determine\u00a0for a fact that we are going to develop a\u00a0specific disease.\u201d Genes do determine the\u00a0development of diseases. Consider sickle\u00a0cell anemia and Marfan syndrome.<\/p>\n
3. Your statement is wrong: \u201cWe have\u00a0the technology to scan an embryo before\u00a0fertilization to know the dangerous genes\u00a0it contains.\u201d It is not possible to scan an\u00a0embryo before fertilization because then it\u00a0will not be an embryo. I think you meant\u00a0either after fertilization or before conception.\u00a0I am a pre-medical student who is\u00a0planning to pursue a career in fertility\u00a0medicine, so I do not agree with your\u00a0article in general, but your opinion is\u00a0respectable.<\/p>\n
My advice would be to have someone\u00a0who can edit scientific reports\/articles\/\u00a0opinions assist you. Also, get more\u00a0references to support your opinion such\u00a0as scientific publications and experts in\u00a0the field. For example, the professors\u2019\u00a0references were good, but also consider the\u00a0strong support of someone more in contact\u00a0with the field such as medical doctors or\u00a0obstetricians who possess a fellowship\u00a0in fertility or researchers with a Ph.D. in\u00a0genetics.<\/p>\n
I hope this information helps you fix\u00a0these issues.<\/p>\n
Hope you are well, <\/p>\n Response from editors<\/strong><\/p>\n Dear Freyja Montiel Freyre,<\/strong><\/p>\n About your first concern regarding the\u00a0author of the editorial: Editorials reflect the\u00a0opinion of all the editors in the staff so all\u00a0the points made in the article are discussed\u00a0by the editors before writing the article\u00a0and then reviewed after being written. For\u00a0this reason, we do not include the name\u00a0of the author because all the editors are\u00a0considered the authors of the editorial.\u00a0Furthermore, the names of the editors are\u00a0listed in page two of the newspaper along\u00a0with the entire staff.<\/p>\n In the second statement regarding genes\u00a0determining diseases we had in mind\u00a0diseases that are within someone\u2019s gene,\u00a0but it does not physically present itself.\u00a0Those persons are known as carriers.<\/p>\n For example, sickle cell anemia, as you\u00a0said, is determined by genes, but there is\u00a0not a 100 percent chance that an offspring\u00a0of a carrier will develop the disease.<\/p>\n According to www.genome.gov,\u00a0\u201cPeople who only carry the sickle cell trait\u00a0typically don\u2019t get the disease, but can pass\u00a0the defective gene on to their children.\u201d\u00a0The article also states the likelihood an\u00a0offspring will develop sickle cell anemia\u00a0if it inherits the defective gene from either\u00a0parent or both. If both parents are carriers\u00a0the chance increases to 25 percent that\u00a0each child they have will be born with\u00a0sickle cell.<\/p>\n On your third concern; embryos can\u00a0be scanned when they undergo in vitro\u00a0fertilization.<\/p>\n Dagan Wells, a Yale University\u00a0geneticist, in the article, \u201cScreening\u00a0Embryos for Disease,\u201d on www.npr.org said, said you can take a cell from an\u00a0embryo without harming it and test the\u00a0DNA to discover if a gene is carrying\u00a0a particular disease. Once scanned,\u00a0the embryo can be transferred to the\u00a0woman\u2019s womb. The process is called\u00a0preimplantation genetic diagnosis.<\/p>\n The process does not guarantee a\u00a0pregnancy, but it does guarantee that if a\u00a0pregnancy does occur, the offspring will\u00a0not be a carrier of the mutated gene.<\/p>\n Freyre, we, SJCC Times, appreciate\u00a0and welcome your response and concerns.\u00a0We would also like to thank you for your\u00a0respectful response about the editorial and\u00a0about our staff. With this article we hope we\u00a0clarified our points on the editorial and any\u00a0misunderstandings it could have caused.<\/p>\n We would like to invite you to stop by the\u00a0newsroom in the Technology Building to\u00a0thank you personally for your response and\u00a0exchange point of views about the editorial.<\/p>\n Best regards, Dear City College Times Editors, Whilst reading your article opinion\u00a0\u201cMaking perfect babies,\u201d I found the\u00a0following issues: 1. There is no author for the opinion\/\u00a0article. In other words, the person who\u00a0wrote such article\/opinion is nowhere to\u00a0be found. 2. Your statement is wrong: \u201cGenes\u00a0define our appearance and can contribute\u00a0to our health but it does not determine\u00a0for a…<\/p>","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"staff_name":[557],"class_list":["post-10417","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lifestyle","staff_name-editorial-board"],"yoast_head":"\n
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