Weapons and Biotechnology Revolution
The role of technology simply can not be separated from mankind in various aspects. Especially in the era of globalization, all the things that are never predicted to be happen but then it becomes a very common thing to be found all around us. Technological development which has growing rapidly is the main cause.
The technology that was originally only intended to facilitate human work is now almost able to replace a direct role in the man himself doing odd jobs. Of course, this brings multiple benefits to humans than if we do not exploit the use of these technologies. Adding all above it, is the biotechnology revolution, which became one of terrifying weapons ever created on earth.
Biotechnology is a branch of biology that studies on the use of living beings so as to produce goods or services for the benefit of human life. In other words, biotechnology utilizing the technology applied to living organisms to produce a product that is useful for humans.
You’ve heard the term ‘cloning’ or ‘engineering’ gene, is not it? What about in vitro fertilization IVF alias? It was quite familiar with our ears aren’t we.
It’s not an impossible thing for farmers to decide for themselves the character of desired plants. Biotechnology allows them to get a fruit or vegetable with superior properties. So also in the affairs of human health, for example, when Alexander Fleming discovered organisms that can inhibit bacterial growth. The organism is ultimately used as penicillin to treat wounded soldiers on the battlefield. In addition, biotechnology can be harnessed to help people with diabetes through the creation of the hormone insulin by recombinant DNA. Many more examples of the use of modern biotechnology, so it can be called technological advances in health can save thousands of lives.
Biological weapons are weapons that use biological agents such as bacterial or viral germs that cause illness and death in humans. This method is used so that the enemy in war can be disabled instantly. Indeed, this germ is obtained naturally. However, with the help of biotechnological sophistication of today, the germs can be modified in such a way and become immune or resistant to existing treatments, so its ability to cause disease can be improved. In addition, modifications to the structure of DNA germs are also made to add strength in order to spread more easily spread to the environment either through the intermediary of media air, water, or food.
Some biological agents are ever used in warfare in world history is Bacillus anthracis which causes anthrax disease, Vibrio cholerae causes cholera, and Clostridium botullinum cause food poisoning.
Biological weapons are one form of the use of biotechnology that has been misused by certain parties to gain advantage in the midst of another person’s loss. In such warfare, this weapon will not only cripple the enemy, the people around who do not understand anything about the war will also receive the effects, given the far reach of a biological agent that can infect them. Bioterrorism tend to be bad even compared to the use of other weapons because it is not detected this. Although the parties who have mutated genes in these biological agents must already have a vaccine or antidote for the diseases that may arise, but the reality is not that easy to clean plague that has spread.
Talking about the plague, weapon development, and many other biotechnology revolution both facts and rumors you could get the resource in the internet, if you’d like information with visual, of course you could get it in some website such as YouTube. For you who like to save the information, especially if you have Mac computer, you could use some help from YouTube downloader to convert and save the file into many different of file types.
Anyway, these biological weapons are now not allowed by the UN, and they really monitoring any activities relating to it. Hopefully they kept doing it until its gone, considering its impact to human lives.