Watson Essay

“But when the sun was setting, all those who had people sick with various diseases brought them to him. By laying his hands on each one of them, he cured them” (Luke 4:20). Could genetic engineering be the cure they are looking for today? Genetic engineering is “the deliberate modification of the characteristics of an organism by manipulating its genetic material.” (Google) The most common genetic disorders are Down Syndrome, Huntington’s Disease, Sickle Cell Disease, and Hemophilia. Modifying…

What were Pavlov’s initial observations that prompted his experiments on respondent conditioning? (pg. 332) Pavlov initially implanted tubes into the dogs’ gland to measure the amount of secretion. When his assistant would present food to the dogs, they would salivate. After some time, they noticed that the dogs would salivate whenever the assistant entered the room, irrespective of whether he had food or not. b. Then describe the exact analogy between those observed events and the events…

The behavioral aspect of phychology is very important to understanding how people act. “Ivan Pavlov was the Russian physiologist that was able to demonstrate that dogs could associate something as neutral such as the ring of a bell could trigger the salvation of a dog.” (Hockenbarry) This was a very immense contribution to phycology because it was able to show future psychologists that people are also able to connect a neutral object with an upcoming event. A person may associate the siren of a…

n the near future, people will be able to genetically modify their child’s genes to have the best chance for ideal DNA. At least, that’s what Gattaca is saying. Made in 1997, this film focuses on Vincent, whom was born naturally, without his genes being modified. HIs natural birth causes discrimination towards him and prevents him from working at Gattaca, a space program. He takes Jerome’s identity, who is a nearly perfect genetically modified person. Jerome had an accident, leaving him…

The Machine Learning on Translating Language by Information Theory Background: In 2013, Dr. Denise Herzing and her team with the Wild Dolphin project had developed a voice translating system to allow humans and dolphins to communicate. It implied that the ability to communicate with dolphins would fundamentally change the direction on the research of machine learning language. Also this ability to communicate with other species would give us the probability to learning aliens' language and even…

Enhancing Society at a Cost In recent years, scientists developed genetic engineering in animals. Gene modification enhances animals by increasing fertility, and allows the possibility of cloning. However, cloning and designing animals leads to the application of genetic modification in humans. In Dinesh D’Souza’s essay, “Staying Human,” he reveals the positive and negative effects of genetic engineering, but he affirms the unethical application of genetic engineering. Because of this…

Nicholas Staropoli is the associate director of the Genetic Literacy Project. He has a Master of Arts in biology from DePaul University and has a Bachelors of Science degree in biomedical science from Marist College. The article, “With Global Gene Editing Slowing Down, What’s the Future of ‘Designer Babies?,’” states that not enough research has been done to safely edit the genes of human embryos. While scientists have an idea about which genes control certain traits such as body type, many…

This cartoon was published from Explosm.net and is a famous Cyanide and Happiness cartoon. It is about a conversation about a doctor(he may be something else like a biologist) and a mother in the year 2109. The doctor can tell the mother a complete prediction on her baby and tells her that her daughter is looking overall healthy but has the gene, that lets her lick her fingers before she turns pages. The mother asks if she can get rid of it. The doctor assumpts she ment that gene and tells her…

This intellectual stimulation, coupled with a desire to discover more about life’s mysteries, compels me to pursue a career in scientifc research. This summer, I worked in a cardiology laboratory at UCLA, looking at proteins associated with HDL to understand how atherosclerosis can be averted. After some experiments provided questionable results, I was given the task of confrming that the viruses we were working with had been packaged and identifed correctly. I spent weeks running DNA gels,…

Who or what is Vamlet? Vamlet is the mixture between the comparisons of Hamlet and Venom. Whereas Hamlet and Venom are different as Hamlet is a human with no super special abilities and is controlled by his own consciousness, while Venom has a symbiote suit that adapts to his body and is mostly controlled by his symbiotic suit. They are also similar as they both have a distaste for social norms, masterminds, selfish, clever, emotionally conflicted, mysterious, sophisticated and they both harm…