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Natural Treatment of the Symptoms of Helicobacter Pylori Helicobacter pylori is a bacteria that causes chronic gastritis (inflammation of the stomach lining) among people. Helicobacter pylori is the main cause of stomach and duodenal ulcers. According to statistics, 90% of people with stomach ulcer test positive for Helicobacter pylori. Characteristics of Helicobacter pylori This gram-positive spiral bacteria discovered by Warren and Marshall in 1984. They found the bacteria in the stomach…

Genetic engineering or genetic modification is the manipulation of a genome using biotechnology, and it has come leaps and bounds within the last three decades. Back then Louise Brown, the first test tube baby, was born and was crushing the ethical dilemma of whether in vitro fertilization (IVF) was safe and useful. Today there are new ethical implications being brought forth because of what genetic engineering is now capable of. It is now possible to essentially snip out part of a person’s…

Links between the human immune system, pathogens, antibiotic resistance and mutations are discussed in this report. It is stated that the antibiotic resistance and overuse of vaccine has contributed to the increased incidence of emerging diseases and resistance to their controls and treatments. The human immune system is the protection of the body against potentially damaging foreign bodies and other disease. Pathogens are organisms, including a bacterium, a virus or a fungus and these causes…

Vaccines: The Safer Option The topic of whether one should get vaccinated or whether one should get their child get vaccinated has always been debatable. Are they safe? Do they really work and are they effective? Recent outbreaks like the measles incident in Disneyland in California in 2014 to 2015 has brought the topic back into the public eye. According to an article by Rong-Gong Lin from the LA Times, legislation in Sacramento intended to induce more parents to get their children the…

Institute of Medicine in which they stated that "the evidence favors rejection of a causal relationship between thimerosal–containing vaccines and autism." An additional study looked at the number of antigens from vaccines during the first two years of life. This study showed that the amount of antigens in children with autism that had been vaccinated and the amount in children without autism that had been vaccinated was the same. Another popular myth is that vaccines contain unsafe toxins. The…

individuals across the world. The genetic predisposition occurs on HLA haplotypes DQ2 and DQ8, and is present on autosomal chromosome 6. Celiac disease is induced by the consumption of foods that contain the protein gluten, which affects the auto-antigen tissue transglutaminase. Gluten, a 33 amino acid peptide high…

sample or biopsy from areas of the prostate. The exam is conducted through the use of a small probe and may be carried out in conjunction with other exams, including the important prostate-specific antigen (PSA) blood test; most men with prostate cancer show elevated levels of prostate-specific antigen, a protein that is produced by the prostate…

treatment of disease and damaged genes. We use recombinant DNA technology in medicine by the creation of human insulin for people who are diabetic. A second way we use it in medicine is with the creation of vaccination by cloning genes used protection antigen protein. Last but not lease, a third was recombinant DNA technology is used in medicine by creating a growth hormone that’s used to treat…

This happens when the blood types are not the same; therefore the immune system sees it as a threat. There are different types of rejection, hyperacute rejection happens a few minutes after the transplant when the antigens completely do not match and so to prevent death, the tissue must be immediately removed. Acute rejection happens from a week after the transplant to about 3 months after. Some amount of this is seen in most patients. The last type is chronic rejection…

EBV belongs to human gamma-herpesviruses which are able to establish latency in lymphocyte. About more than 95% of adults are carriers of the virus. A common disease caused by EBV is mononucleosis. Besides, EBV can transform and cause cancer. Every year, there are 200,000 new cases of cancer and more than 140,000 deaths worldwide. Two major targets of The virus are B-lymphocytes and epithelial cells. Epstein-Barr virus has two stages in its life cycle; latency and lytic replications. Latent…