Bioethics, we all know what it means even if vaguely. Despite the name, it's a humanistic
scientific area that I personally describe as the consciousness of the biotechnological progress.
Bioethics allows us to observe science from another perspective, a humanitarian perspective and
preserving the biosphere around us. Through bioethics it’s possible to advance in the field of biology
and biotechnology without harming our study objects, living beings, because all the science that
deals with something so important and yet so little known as life itself has to balance the pros and
cons with regard to possible consequences of this manipulation by the man. And it is this lack of
knowledge that makes bioethics so important because if we still know so little about life and living
things , it can be considered to irresponsible act invasively on such study objects because you can
not predict the outcome and its consequences .
We all know that, more than any partition of nature, the biosphere is strongly linked by
physical and chemical processes: Among ecosystems, among populations and even between species,
these interactions are essential to the balance of the nature itself. With the possibility to manipulate
living organisms at a genetic level, bioethical issues gained great recognition by the scientific
community. To what extent is our right to manipulate information, the "instruction manual" so to
speak, which leads to life, and that sets living beings as we know them in nature. From another
perspective: The human being is part of the biosphere there are about two hundred thousand years
over the last century scientific discoveries revolutionized the world, we have the example of the
discovery of antibiotics but then we can not forget the atomic bomb crippled a part of land area and
killed thousands of people. In a hundred years this was the scale of the impact caused by
technological advancement.
Now a living being that is part of the biosphere, two hundred thousand years old and that in
a hundred years affected the planet irreversibly, begins to manipulate the information itself that
defines life itself. How amazing and scary at the same time is this reality? To what extent is our right
to do it? What are the consequences impossible to be predicted right now? How is this knowledge
going to be used in the next hundred years? And in the next thousand years? Bioethics makes sure
that when we find out the answer to this questions, we will be prospering not doomed.