What Do We Think?
Antisense Therapy is one of the newer forms of technology which is beginning to garner attention. We feel that the use of this sort of technology would benefit our society in a positive way. Even though it has its disadvantages, the use of anti-sense therapy has helped in the treatments of various forms of diseases namely cancer. Cancer is one of the most dominant illnesses found today. With the use antisense therapy to treat cancer, it leads to longer lasting
responses than most treatment methods. This is because instead of slowing down
the rate at which the disease causing proteins replicate, it completely
destroys the strand. Moreover, there is more specificity with this form of
technology then compared to cancer treatment methods such as chemotherapy
because it eliminates any guesswork and only targets the cancerous cells rather
than the healthy ones. This technology is still fairly new which leaves it open for more research. So far with positive results coming from most treatments, it is possible that antisense therapy could one day overcome cancer and even other diseases such as diabetes, high cholesterol, etc.