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Designer Babies Should Not Be Allowed Most people have heard of Build-A-Bear Workshop and how they allow someone to customize a stuffed animal however they would like. Now, imagine doing that with a baby. Thanks to new advances in technology and research, this may become a reality very soon. One such technology capable of restructuring genetic codes in human embryos is the CRISPR-Cas9 method. This works by using an enzyme found in bacteria to snip out segments of DNA and replace the section…

The Effects Of Treacher Collins Syndrome Treacher Collins Syndrome is a rare incurable genetic disorder that most often affects the jaw, cheekbones, eyes, chin, and ears. It was identified dating all the way back to Ancient Rome, however, research as to what exactly it was and the causes of TCS was not studied until the 1800s by an English ophthalmologist named Edward Treacher Collins. In 1884, he began an internship at the Royal London Ophthalmic Hospital, a position which later was turned…

JD’s Therapeutic Riding Ax Plan 1. Life story over JD: JD is an eight-year-old boy, who turns nine on Oct 26, who has been riding for a total of 12, 6 sessions with Kandy and 6 with Bowen. JD was adopted by his family when he was only 4 days old. JD is homeschooled by his mother and lives his parents. He has two siblings, a 12-year-old brother and 7-year-old sister, who are very helpful with JD. JD has a wonderful family, who is his main support system and helps when needed. JD’s mother…

Was Queen Victoria’s birth illegitimate? –The genetics of Haemophilia Both forms of haemophilia result from mutations on the human X chromosome, a similar sex-linked pattern of inheritance as colour blindness.2 Each son of a female carrier has a fifty percent chance of having the disease, and each daughter has a fifty percent chance of being a carrier. An affected male’s daughters will all be carriers as he will pass on the mutated gene to them all; while he sons will not be affected11 Queen…

Introduction: Williams Syndrome (WS) is a very rare syndrome (1:20,000) which is caused by a microdeletion on chromosome 7q11.23 and results in the individual being hyper-sociable, having high levels of anxiety and having difficulties with social, behavioural and cognitive skills. Previous research indicates that anxiety is the most prevalent mental illness found in individuals with WS and within that, specific phobias are most common. Individuals with WS find it difficult to maintain…

C-myc is a transcription factor that is involved in the strict regulation of the cell cycle. It regulates genes that promote the induction of the cell cycle and it is also involved in apoptosis. The c-myc ¬gene is one of the most commonly activated oncogenes and has been found to be overexpressed in many cancers. Activation of this oncogene may contribute to as many as 100,000 cancer deaths per year in the United States alone (Dang et al., 2006). The discovery that this gene is involved in so…

“without cartilage formation.” The name comes from the complications in ossification caused by the genetic defect. The gene responsible for the defect was discovered in 1994 by Dr. John Wasmuth, at the University of California at Irvine. Located on chromosome 4, achondroplasia is the most common type of dwarfism, caused by a mutation of the FGFR3 gene. The defect is usually random, where the parents do not have achondroplasia. It affects around 1 in 25000 people. An ultrasound can help detect…

Progeria, otherwise known as Hutchinson-Gilford Progeria syndrome , is a rare disorder that causes children to age eight times faster than a normal person. This disease affect only 350 kids today. It was discovered by Jonathan Hutchinson in England in 1886 and was first called Progeria by Hastings Gilford. It was then named Hutchinson-Gilford Progeria syndrome. The name Progeria is taken from a Greek word that means "prematurely old". It is an autosomal recessive disorder, meaning that an…

Two forms of leukemias are usually recognized in children. Acute lymphoblastic leukemia and acute myelogenous leukemia. ALL and AML are further subdivided due to confusion and inconsistent classification of leukemias. Chromosome analysis of leukemic cells has become an important tool in the identification and management of patients with ALL in AML. The pathologic and clinical signs of leukemia are caused by invasion and replacement of any tissue of the body with nonfunctional…

Biological Science Three Parent Child: Research Paper Willie Hall Over the past three years, throughout the biologically developed countries worldwide, debates, criticism, and progressions have boomed in the mitochondrial procedure known as the “Three Parent Child”. In society today, almost one in sixty-five hundred children across the globe are born with a serious mitochondrial disorder due to maternally inherited mitochondrial DNA. Not to mention the greater amount of mildly affected kids…