Introductory Paragraph PART B

Since the dawn of time, people have wanted to be healthy. Unfortunately, there have always been unfavorable weather conditions, germs, poor living conditions, and faulty genes that thwart them in their ever-present quest. Of the above mentioned causes of disease, humans have generally learned how to provide themselves with shelter, kill bacteria with antibiotics, and stay clean and well-nourished, but genetic disease remained a profound mystery, but until the discovery of genetics and DNA. Currently, there are some treatments for these diseases, but not cures. Those who inherited type A diabetes from their parents, for example, can supplement their body with insulin injections. But there are many of these diseases that have no really treatments whatsoever like Huntington's disease. However, there is a new kind of technology that aims to cure these diseases entirely by altering the human genetic code. Gene therapy, as this science is called, uses genetically-altered viruses to insert re-engineered DNA into affected human cells. Though this science is still rather young and controversial, gene therapy should be more extensively researched, tested, and eventually commercialized.

P. S. I would never really start my paper with "since the dawn of time..." I just thought I'd get the temptation to do that out of my system before I actually wrote my paper :)