Cell culture

to change into these protective suits so we would be kept safe from any harmful substances. We were all told that we would be put into two groups the A and the B group. We would all be put into a Eukaryotic Cell if the machine worked to get a closer look at the organelles in a Eukaryotic Cell. I was put into the A group along with another girl who looked about 16. The B group had a boy who looked about 14 and a girl who looked about 15. I guess the age varied between all of us because I am 17.…

a virus vector. Then, the vector binds to the cell membrane. After the vector binds to the cell membrane, a vesicle forms around the vector as it enters the cell. Thereafter, the vesicle breaks down, releasing the vector. Then, the vector inserts the DNA it contains into the cell’s nucleus. The cell makes a functional…

Photothermal therapy would support the nano-carriers with the RNA by creating a pathway through the cell to the nucleus. In which the nanomedicine will introduce foreign RNA to modify the genetics while the reactivity of the heat from the P.T therapy would enhance the strength of the nucleotide. There are two methods for this drug delivery. One takes…

In my Navajo culture it is said that we were made from mother earth and father sky and the animals were on this earth before mankind was with that cultural story that is why the Navajo people take animal sacred such as the most powerful ones like the eagle we depend on…

Gene Therapy & Cancer Cells Gene therapy is often defined as a treatment that uses genes to cure or prevent diseases. Genes, DNA, and protein are all involved with each other, therefore, in many immune diseases, if one fails your whole immune system could eventually fail. This treatment is relatively new; hence it is still a pretty risky experimentation since it involves getting genes into cancer cells. Gene Therapy is often involved in serious cancer cell treatments; its main purpose is to try…

Our Actions and Their Consequences Have you ever wanted to change yourself? You may want to rethink that. During the short story “Flowers for Algernon” by Daniel Keyes, Charlie undergoes a experimental surgery to increase his intelligence. The story is a collection of all of Charlie’s progress reports from before to after his surgery. He continually writes better and with more intellect, and then he begins to decline. He gets amnesia and other terrible symptoms, such as depression, and…

external modifications to DNA that turn genes “on” and “off”. Although modifications don’t change the sequence per se, it changes the way the cells “read” genes. Essentially, this is what differentiates genetics from epigenetics. Going further into detail, genetics conceptually deal with gene and gene function. This focuses on how DNA sequences make changes in the cell. However, epigenetics refers to gene regulation. Instead, it focuses on the way DNA is regulated to attain those changes. …

Deciding Actively Listening for the Public Voice, by Robert Cook-Deegan and Jane Maienschein, discusses the issue of genetic engineering and the ethical dilemma and how the United States, government, and people are interacting in the struggle of the ethics behind genetic engineering. The authors present the facts that genetic engineering has laid in the grey area ever since it was first brought to in lab, and still continues to sit in that grey area. Genetic Engineering will occasionally pop up…

deadly disorder where the body cannot break down the three branched- chained amino acids (BCCA): leucine, isoleucine and valine. These amino acids are used to build proteins and when they are not being used they can be broken down and recycled in the cell. The complex that breaks these amino acids down is called BCKD (branched-chain alpa-ketoacid dehydrogenase) and is made up of six proteins. When a person has a mutation in one of the six proteins that creates the complex, the complex does not…

Ordinarily, multicellularity means a condition or state of having or being composed of many cells or more than one cell performing differing functions. A multicellular organism should have cells that contain the same genetic information. Until now, information regarding multicellularity is still a mystery because the ability to go further is still not that sufficient. The reasons behind this lack of background are the “long ago” divergence from the common unicellular ancestor of the organisms…