Throughout history, human beings have used genetics empirically, based on their experience, always with the aim of achieving improvements in crops and domestic animals in order to obtain increased yields.
Also, the genetic therapy is used in medicine for the diagnosis and cure of hereditary diseases, for example for the treatment of cystic fibrosis, also to treat liver diseases, it is even working to be used as a treatment against cancer by modifying lymphocytes so that they attack the cancerous tumors, which implies that the knowledge of the genetics contributes techniques and treatments that manage to improve the quality of life and contribute to the good living of the society
Recent information shows us that genetics can help cure a disease when it is detected that a particular gene is the one that causes the problem, in reality it will not be like that, because the common diseases are not caused by a single gene, reason why it is believed that genetic information will serve to make preventive medicine, that is, to say that a person has the risk of suffering from a disease, which will allow to establish a health plan that fits your genetic.
It is also important to point out that according to studies, genetics does not act alone, in complex diseases the environment counts a lot.
A person may have a certain predisposition to develop a disease, but it is evident that sometimes appears in a milder and other more serious, a question that has much to do with the relationship we have with the environment, with what we eat and with the kind of life we lead.
recent information from the communicator Angel Escalera informs that in the opinion of the expert president of the Spanish Association of Human Genetics Juan Cigudosa who is organizing conferences of interest in the science and health cycle will provide his most recent research on genetics and the influence on preventive medicine .
Note that the genetics will be a great ally to do preventive medicine, also highlights the discoveries and knowledge that come from the human genome to solve medical problems, ie the way in which information is used that is known to address a particular problem of a patient
Recall that the genome of a species defines the totality of genetic information that has that species, usually speaking of the genome in eukaryotic organisms we refer only to the DNA contained in the nucleus, organized into chromosomes
It is also important to clarify that genetics is a scientific discipline that studies the rules of transmission of genes and the characters of the connection between cells and families, while genomics is the complete study of all genes and at the same time its effect possible in a disease, this to clarify the functions and clarify the importance of the study that is being carried out through experts and thus contribute directly in the data useful to said strategy
