Cytogenetics

Blood, in all living things, is a very complex substance that scientists are learning new things about every day. Blood is characterized as a thick substance that has variations in color depending on how much oxygen is present in the blood. If a person’s blood contains ample amounts of oxygen it will be a bright red color and if it contains a low level of oxygen the color will be a dark red. Blood composition is forever varying due to the addition and removal of all sorts of substances in the…

1.10 Prognosis Main goal of treatment is to improve life expectancy, durable haematological response to reduce risk of relapse or clonal evolution (165). Haemopoietic response of the patients taking IST is up to 74% with long term survival rate of about 90% while 20-40% responders show a relapse (166). Various factors are believed to have a prognostic value including younger age, male gender, early start of treatment after diagnosis, low TLC, high absolute neutrophil counts and high retic count…

The other method being a transabdominal, where a needle is used and pushed into the abdomen to reach the placenta and attain the required tissue needed.The researchers found that of both forms of chronic villus sampling procedure 97.8 percent cytogenetic diagnosis were made. Moreover, there were no form of error made bin the results of the sex or the specific identification of critical trisomes such as 13, 18, and 21. Therefore, concluding that the procedure is an effective technique which can…

A child tells his parents that he is not feeling good. He is tired, running fever, and has no appetite. The parents decide to take the child to the doctor. They think it’s the flu, but it is actually much worse than that. The parents have just found out that their little child has pediatric acute lymphoblastic leukemia. Instantly the question “Will my child die?” fills their minds. The parents can hardly speak because they are filled with shock. Then they began to wonder how they are going to…

Imagine not having control of your body, whether it is something small like being hyperactivity a little bit, or completely losing act of your mind. Your mind has a switch that you can’t turn off. And if you can turn it off, it can turn back on at any minute. Imagine that you have been crawling on your knees your whole life, but everybody else has two legs to walk on. You understand that you are different, and you know you should be walking like everyone else, but you cant seem to get up on…

The Usher syndrome type 1 G protein is encoded by USH1 gene. The USH1G gene’s cytogenetic location is on the q arm (long arm) in chromosome 17 at position 25.1 (17q25.1). Its molecular location on the chromosome 17 is at base pairs 74,916,082 to 74,923,262 (Summary: Usher Syndrome, Type 1G). USH1G gene’s main function is to provide information for making a protein, SANS, which is located in the inner ear and the retina. The protein SANS, interacts with other proteins which forms a larger…

Life is molded by the fruits of mutations. It was this revelation that fueled my desire to delve into the world of cells and directed my fascination towards the objective details governing the universe. My will to challenge the known while embracing an open reception to knowledge is what distinguishes me as a worthy GRFAW candidate. Currently in the 11th grade, my previous grade 10 year resulted an overall average of 93% and final marks of 100% in science and 98% in math. My passion for…

Geographical distribution and Karyotype of Nannospalax ehrenbergi (Rodentia, Spalacidae) in Iraq (Kurdistan Region) Zaitoon Ahmed HAMAD1, Yüksel COŞKUN2*, Alaettin KAYA2 1 Dicle University Institute of Science Biology Section, Diyarbakır /Turkey 2 Dicle University Science Faculty, Department of Biology, Diyarbakır/Turkey *Corresponding author Geographical distribution and Karyotype of Nannospalax ehrenbergi (Rodentia, Spalacidae) in Iraq (Kurdistan Region) Abstract The…

Rhabdomyosarcoma, also know as RMS, is a type of sarcoma in which cancer cells form a muscle tissue. There are three main types this disease has, Embryonal, Alveolar, and Anaplastic. There is also stage I, stage II, stage III, and stage IV. There are treatments for RMS but it's all depending on the area, type, and stage of the cancer, survival rates will also fall under that. As far as symptoms, it can be very difficult to find early stages, since RMS mostly diagnosed in children younger than 5…

Cornell University, and received her Ph.D. in the same subject at Cornell in 1927. Although women were not always permitted to major in genetics at Cornell, McClintock became a highly influential member of a small group, who studied maize (corn) cytogenetics. McClintock went back to Cornell for several more years until, in 1936, she gladly accepted a position as an assistant professor at the University of Missouri at Columbia. By 1940, however, she believed that she would not gain tenure at…