Mary-Clair King, the woman given the credit for discovering the breast cancer gene was recently interviewed by the New York Times. Her question/ answer interview style revealed some very significant medical break-through's. Not only was her and her laboratories accredited with the discovery for the breast cancer gene BRCA1 on chromosome 17, she also won a huge battle against a company called Myriad who tried to patent the rights to gene. Backed by her lab at the University of Seattle Washington, and The Attorney Generals Office she won the Supreme Court Ruling 9-0 because genes are natural and cannot be patented. King was also accredited in her contribution of using mitochondrial DNA testing to reunite displaced families in Argentina. Mitochondrial DNA testing can be used to identify parentage or lineage.
It seems as though Mary- Clair King made some extremely significant contributions to science and human rights. Locating the gene was very important, but perhaps even more important was her preventing the patenting of genes, which could have been a very terrible occurrence in the world of genetics.
While this was enlightening I felt that it was not reread at all. It felt slightly disjointed (the last sentence of the first paragraph seems to be thrown in and doesn't mesh nicely), the title did not fit the content (you only mentioned the breast cancer gene once, you primarily focused on King), and the grammar was poor ("Not only was her and her laboratories accredited..."). While there was valuable information it was had for me to get through the above listed problems.
ReplyDeleteWhile this was enlightening I felt that it was not reread at all. It felt slightly disjointed (the last sentence of the first paragraph seems to be thrown in and doesn't mesh nicely), the title did not fit the content (you only mentioned the breast cancer gene once, you primarily focused on King), and the grammar was poor ("Not only was her and her laboratories accredited..."). While there was valuable information it was had for me to get through the above listed problems.
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