Ms Desivla had a rare immune system deficiency and the procedure allowed researchers to remove white blood cells and allow them to grow in which they inserted the missing gene. They then infused the blood cells back into Ms Davila's body, which later showed that the procedure had strengthened Ms Davila's immune system. The road of gene therapy was not made easier by this first successful procedure but only added to the optimism of the public.
An individual's knowledge of gene therapy is very scares because of the fact that gene therapy is not used in everyday life as a means of treating diseases. With this it affects individuals knowledge in the fact that there is not a lot of information to educate people. Therefore it enables individuals to make their own conclusion as to what gene therapy is gene therapy is a very controversial subject in society. The reason for this is that with everyone making his or her own opinion on gene therapy it allows society to have a lot of different belief as to what gene therapy consists of. This results in gene therapy being accepted or not, even if its wrongly represented.
Financial costs differ from country to country the reason that this occurs is because each country has a different level of knowledge and specialised equipment available. In the United States of America the yearly budget that they work with is 200 million dollars per year. This is simply because the USA are more technological and medically advanced then other countries which allows then to have considerable success from expensive experiments. In individual treatment for a course of gene therapy it can be very expensive. The different types of gene therapy can range from 150,000 to 1million dollars considering how difficult the procedure and the type of disease.
The ethical issues that are raised with gene therapy have considerable affect on society's view on gene therapy. Who are we to play god, what right do we have as people to alter the D.