Alicia-13

For a biology project, I'm researching Zmapp, which is a drug that was created to fight Ebola. It annoys me that the two Americans that contracted Ebola were given the experimental treatment but not the thousands of people in West Africa begging for it. The whole concept of changing an organism's genome, which allowed for this drug to be created, is still a relatively new and expensive process that is done in labs with high tech equipment, but it freaks me out. It creates so many amazing yet terrifying possibilities, and thinking that it might evolve to become more common and even a way to cure disease-while amazing-absolutely petrifies me!