I have some questions about genetic engineering! for school thanks!?

Question

I have a project in my ddp class and i need to create a brochure about genetic engineering and i can't seem to find anything i need


The brochure should contain the following:

- description of the field
- areas of specialization
- where and how long (college)-education
- job prospects (are there many jobs in this field)
- where this type of engineer might work
- expected salary and ranges
- coomon duties and responsiblities



i need to find a LOT of information but I can't seem to find any i tired google and wikipedia and lots of other things already...

can anyone help with the research?

is there any specific key words i should use or do you know anybody working in this field who would help me?

and the biggest problem always seem to be finding the salary ranges i never seem to be able to find anything at all
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PLEASE HELP

THANKS!

THANK YOU!

Answer 1

What's a dpp class?

Well I hate to tell you that not all jobs are easy to be described in the formalism you are looking for... Having said that and having done my PhD using genetic engineering here are some tips.

You need at least a university degree in biology or biochemistry or even chemistry. Then postgraduate studies in molecular biology. You might also come across genetic engineering as a postgraduate student doing (bio)chemical engineering.
Personally I studied chemistry 4 years in Greece (majored in biochemistry) and then did my PhD in molecular biology in Germany (4 years).
Degree in genetics would also be a way towards genetic engineering (I think that would be not only through biology but also medicine).

Salaries vary a lot depending on the country, your background and place of work. The most obvious place is an academic institute (universities, research institutes, etc) so in such places your salary would depend also on grants or fellowships (at least at the level of a post-doctoral fellow). Another place of work would be research and development for pharma industry and also ...hmm, well, the army...

Genetic engineering is actually a tool, rather than a field of its own. It means changing the genetic material of organisms in a defined-designed way that changes their phenotype; changes their traits, even introducing completely novel ones. It can be from something as simple as a bacterium (or a virus which is not considered an organism) up to humans (gene therapy). You could be engineering the organism to study'use the organism itself or use the organism as a vessel for something else, like the genetically engineered bacteria which produce insulin and allow the easy, mass production of insulin.
So I wouldn't say that there are genetic engineers. Rather that there are different scientists which use this tool according to their needs and field of expertise.

Common duties and responsibilities? Well, the general ethics behind science and its practice and being very careful with safety issues.

I guess this info can get you started

Answer 2

you can become a genetic counselor and that takes a bachelors and then a masters so like 6 years and they make about 50 to 60 thousand a year.. you should try dogile.com... its all the search engines combined..