Treatment for AIDS, New editing technique might cure AIDS

Acquired immune deficiency syndrome commonly known as AIDS is a disease of immune system. Immune system that protects us from diseases discontinues its functioning in this disease and eventually it leads to death. This disease is caused by HIV virus. Various medications that are available in market cannot cure or overcome this disease; they can only shortly reduce the damages related to the disease.

T cells play vital role in immune system and provide resistance against diseases.

Different teams of scientists around the globe are working to produce cure for this disease. Recently a team of scientists have claimed that AIDS can be treated using modern gene editing techniques. US scientists team from temple university Pennsylvania have successfully conducted an experiment in which HIV virus was removed from human cells using new Gene editing techniques. With the help of this technique AIDS can be cured and scientists are sure that within three years, this invention will be available in market. They used Crispr/Cas9 gene editing technology to remove AIDS virus from cultured T-cells. 

This is latest development in biotechnology. It will open new frontiers in medicine and technology. This will also enhance our understanding of human genome will lead to bunch of new arenas in biotechnology. This might lead to practice of human genetic manipulation and this type of technologies will get a new life. Possible cure for AIDS will reduce the moral, ethical and legal restrictions related to genetic manipulation.

These new techniques such as Crispr can be used in other diseases as well. This will enable us to genetically modify and engineer our cells. This may cure the diseases but also have potential to alter the course of humanity

Difference Between Science and Technology

What is The Difference between Science and Technology?

Science is theoretical knowledge about anything and technology is application of that knowledge to produce new machines. We hear both these words mostly together and we start to think that they are same. Science is knowledge while technology is practical application of knowledge. To understand this let us take an example:  newton is very famous for his laws of motion and gravitation, these laws are science. Using these principles hundreds of machines are formed, these machines are technology.  Newton’s laws are applicable on motion of all large bodies. Even the rockets that led humans to the moon were based on newton’s laws.  So the basic difference between technology and science is of knowledge and application of knowledge.

The question that automatically rises in our minds is that which one is more important, technology or science. There is probability that most people will say technology is more useful. We use technology to facilitate our lives but science is only knowledge, if they are familiar with aforementioned definition.  However, in reality science is more important than technology. Most of the noble prizes were awarded to those who discovered some new scientific principle. Second it is science that enables us to build new technologies. Now we see different kind of batteries around us, Batteries of different shape, purpose and material, but they are all based on one scientific principle coulomb’s law. So that law is behind the formation of batteries and batteries are essential component of our lives. Our almost every device is somehow related to battery. So it is science that rules rather than technology.  However, importance of technology cannot be diminished.

The basic aim of all human knowledge is to understand and control environment

We are living in a world where we are surrounded by science and technology. It is important that we should know what main difference between the two is. Although we are familiar with this difference in physical sciences, but when it comes in the domain of computer science the difference is blur. There is no clear-cut boundary that can distinguish the science and technology. So computer software is knowledge in written form but is also applicable in practical life. Computer software or application is technology and science at the same time. A computer scientist can be called both a scientist as well as an engineer. Science is worthless without technology and technology cannot be produced without knowing the basic concepts behind it.

This debate will lead us to another realm that it is technology that is produced earlier or it is science that is earlier. My answer to this question is it that both these things are mutually existent. There are some scientific ideas that were just introduced because of prior existence of technology. Appropriate technology was available that helped in discovery of knowledge. Similarly on the other hand scientific principles were discovered and then we were able to form new technology.  So they both are mutually responsible for each other’s creation.  Humans wondered about the world around them and they also developed tools to explore and control this world. All our knowledge is about controlling our environment.