Developing A Research Question

There are dozens of controversies within the Neurology field. While most of these debates are put to rest by ground breaking research and case studies, the more intangible concepts of the medical practice are hotly debated by some of the most successful doctors in medicine.

Below, I listed a few questions that I will eventually explore throughout Project II.

I. What has the international and domestic medical institutions done to institute genome sequencing technology into hospital settings. 

• Related Questions: 

1. Does funding for gene mapping programs contribute to quality research and aid in lowering the costs of the technology for public access?
2. Should the technology be banned in hospital due to conflicts in religious ideals? Are doctors obligated to use such mapping for the betterment of the human condition?
3. Should more developed nations make such genome mapping available to less developed nations, along with other basic medical goods? 

I might enjoy researching this question mostly because of the politics behind funding these medical research programs; especially one as controversial as gene mapping. I want to find whether or not other countries, aside for the U.S, have made greater strides in unlocking the DNA code or if they have banned such research due to ethical obligations.

II. Does Gene Sequencing really help diagnostic physicians pinpoint genetic diseases or other debilitating illnesses?

1. Have doctors definitively used such mapping to cure or treat a debilitating illness before major symptoms surface?
2. What illnesses can doctors treat if a full map of a patient's genome sequence is created.
3. Are the costs of using such technology financially feasible for hospitals to use?

I might find it interesting researching these types of issues because the entire purpose of my previous project was to illustrate the two positions of the genome debate and allow my readers to come to their own conclusion of such technology in hospitals. In theory it may sound good or bad, but is it possible to begin with?

III. What is the future of the genome technology? Will its research be used for more pressing diseases such as cancer. Can the cancer gene be "found" if more funding is given to genome sequencing?

1. Cancer & Genome Sequencing
2. Cancer Whole-Genome Alterations: A Cure?

I think this will be the most interesting question within the research assignment because of the cancer aspect of it. Since the illness is such a killer among groups around the world, I would interested to see if there is evidence that supports gene sequencing as a preventative measure towards cancer.