Biotechnology

What are your current career goals? Why did you choose this career path and what other options might you consider? It is fine to be undecided at this point, but please indicate the types of career paths that interest you. With my interest in genetics and DNA sequencing, I am considering pursuing a career in Bioinformatics as a research scientist. I am interested in becoming a research scientist because it fascinates me how humans share similar genetic material but only a small deviation in…

Introduction: Genetic transformation is used in many areas of biotechnology. In medicine, diseases caused by defective genes are beginning to be treated by gene therapy by genetically transforming a sick person’s cells with healthy copies of the defective gene that causes their disease. Genes can be cut out of human, animal, or plant DNA and placed inside bacteria, which could treat a person with that disease. For example, a healthy person’s gene for the insulin can be put into bacteria. Under…

HIPPA Regulations The agency of the case manager, is required to follow the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPPA) by law. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services enacted HIPPA regulations in 1996. According to the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services (2016), HIPPA provides rules and regulation on the disclosure, privacy, and security of individually identifiable health information and individual health records. Individually identifiable health information…

storytelling. The author intertwines several different plotlines together to keep the readers on their toes, as well as keep them in suspense. However, even more unique is the way that Crichton weaves together both fact and fiction in this story of biotechnology and its many different areas. Dr. Robert Bellarmino was one of the major characters from the book with a very interesting plotline. The path he takes is filled with many twists and turns, and for the most part, is very accurate to real…

more food in order to feed everyone. In the United States, Genetically Modified Organisms are in over eighty percent of our food. GMOs or Genetically Modified Organisms plants or animals are created through the gene splicing techniques of biotechnology. Biotechnology is also known as Genetic Engineering (GE). Food manufacturers have a massive impact on animals, plants and human health. First of all, Genetically Modified…

GMO’s, or genetically modified organisms, are animals that have their genes manipulated in a laboratory. These genes are changed by chemicals to bring some good effects on the people but may also bring some bad ones. There are lots of controversies and debates in society about how dangerous GMOs are even after some research was conducted and it showed that there use was safe. This paper is intended to help give information about the good and bad effects of GMO’s in society and help us make a…

GMOs. GMOs were once believed to benefit the consumer by providing more nutrients but instead it benefits the producer rather than the consumer. The flavr savr was the promise of better food but instead the consumers got ripped off my famers and biotechnology companies like Monsanto. I believe this article has relevant information that will be useful in my research paper. I can talk about how the flavr savr promise was never met and how GMO is going against everything it was originally made to…

For the Carleton Prize for Biotechnology, I would like to nominate the brilliant scientist Rosalind Franklin. Her crystallographic work at King’s College, London was a crucial contribution to the double-helix model of DNA discovered by James Watson and Francis Crick (Gregory, 2002). Her contributions to the scientific community are still being quoted today and without the discovery of the structure of DNA, present day scientific projects such as The Genome project would not have been possible…

Scientist Leon Kass is another doomsayer to the transhumanist movement, and he believes that our human nature is the way it is for a reason, and there is not a reason to tamper with it as it may detract from our humanity. In addition, political scientist Francis Fukuyama claims that there is a “dignity…unique to human beings,” that might be lost in a transition from our purely biological existence (Bostrom; Downes and Machery, 578). However, history is full of naysayers whose woes and sentiments…

If success ensues, testing can begin on naturally diabetic dogs (“Research”). A 2013 study led by Dr. Fatima Bosch (Director of the Center of Animal Biotechnology and Gene Therapy) set the research off on the right path. The researchers injected 5 lab dogs with two genes: insulin and glucokinase. An adeno-associated virus was used as a vector for transmission. The non-pathogenic virus could safely infect…