Biopolymers and cell. 1991. Volume 7. № 2. 25 - 73

KORDIUM V. A.

Gene Therapy is Inevitable but Will We Manage?

Summary

    We are putting forward and giving ground the statement according to which accepted and the only possible model of human civilisation for visible future (providing stabilization of the population growth with minimum child-birth), is incompatable with human biology in part of his genome and should lead to gene degeneration. Taking into consideration mutogenic influence of environment and practical stabilization of population growth, in developed countries they came closely to gene degeneration or in some regions it is possibly going on. Disorders of genome, which already have occured could be corrected only by gene therapy. So, its wide development is inevitable if we have enough time to realise it.