Purdue Global Library is one of the leading research databases in the world. The site contains millions of publications on different disciplines and research topics. Using the library led to the identification of the clonal rodent beta-cell lines and incretin-based therapies as two gene therapies used to manage diabetes. The (two) therapies are under establishment and offer noteworthy promises. However, the clonal rodent beta-cell lines therapy faces noteworthy ethical concerns due to its potential inability to work on humans (Green et al., 2018). The incretin-based therapies also have ethical repercussions due to their suspected adverse effects on the renal system (Yaribeygi et al., 2021). Scholars use different tactics to acquire relevant research articles and content. The first search process utilized the phrase ‘gene therapy for diabetes’ and returned over one hundred and fifty thousand results containing the whole phrase and specific words in the search terms.
Moreover, specifying the search conditions to return only peer-reviewed articles published within the past five years returned about three hundred articles. The various research fine-tuning tactics supported by the Purdue Global Library make the database superior to ordinary search engines like Google Chrome. The database’s collection of voluminous articles on a specific subject or concept also beats the search engines. Google Scholar is one of the most reliable search engine-based platforms for accessing authoritative articles but can never match the Purdue Global Library. The point makes the Purdue Global Library a genuine aid to researchers globally. However, the Purdue Global Library is not available freely via search engines. This aspect limits many researchers’ potential to utilize the library, thus, going for the less reliable sites like Google scholar.
References
Green, A. D., Vasu, S., & Flatt, P. R. (2018). Cellular models for beta-cell function and diabetes gene therapy. Acta Physiologica (Oxford, England), 222(3). Web.
Yaribeygi, H., Atkin, S. L., Montecucco, F., Jamialahmadi, T., & Sahebkar, A. (2021). Renoprotective effects of incretin-based therapy in diabetes mellitus. BioMed Research International, 2021, 8163153. Web.