Embryology

began with human anatomy. Blade in hand, I fell in love with the human dissection, spent extra hours tracing arteries and nerves, and engraving the images of the human body in my mind. I enjoyed it so much that I became a pro bono human anatomy and embryology tutor at the University of Nigeria for four years. After medical school, I volunteered for national service in an area in Northern Nigeria that was prone to Boko Haram terrorist attacks. It had over 48,000 people, three government…

different than Lamarckian genetics since the genes are not changing through interactions with the environment: only the expression of genes is being altered in the developmental process through non-environmental means. In effect, Waddington combined embryology and genetics by comparing the inheritance of genes to the expression of gene products in the progeny. Waddington defined this process, ‘epigenetics,’ as “the causal interactions between genes and their products, which bring the phenotype…

Klippel-Feil Syndrome: An Overview According to the National Organization for Rare Disorders (2016), Klippel-Feil syndrome (KFS) is a rare disorder of the skeletal system characterized by cervical spine fusion of two or more vertebrae. The disorder was first documented in 1912 by two doctors Maurice Klippel and Andre Feil (NORD, 2016). Individuals with KFS often exhibit the hallmark features such as a short neck, low hairline, and limited neck mobility. Additional associated malformations may…

Mother of a Dead Child Mother Teresa once said,“It is a poverty to decide that a child must die so that you may live as you wish,” This religious leader forces one to ponder the issue of life’s value with a strong yet simple statement. Generally, abortion is where you terminate a baby before pregnancy can occur. People should not be able to abort their child. There are many plausible reasons and a few include, women trying to perform their own abortions and these abortions can lead to…

Students go through school often just worried about passing one test to the next in order to make it through. A major problem that has been happening in education is state testing and if it is beneficial for students to take part in. It is often questioned whether it is beneficial to show a student’s progress of these tests do more harm than good. I do not think schools should be focused on taking state test. Schools should be focused on testing all the time because it takes the quality out of…

Robert Brown Biology is a very broad topic and many scientists have contributed to the biology world. In this paper I will be talking about one of those people who had a major contribution to the science community. “Robert Brown was born on December 21, 1773 in Montrose Scotland. He died on June 10, 1858 at the age of 84 in London England” (Britannica 1). Robert Brown most recognized by how he described the “cell nuclei and the continuous motion of minute particles in solution, which came to…

Polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) is a common and perplexing endocrine disorder of women in their reproductive years. It is a heterogenous syndrome which is characterized by persistent hyperandrogenic chronic anovulation frequently associated with hyperinsulinemia and insulin resistance, resulting in menstrual irregularity , infertility and hirsuitism. Over the years investigators began to study the etiopathogenesis of this disorder and through many modifications of terminology the condition has…

Reflections of the Indian Philosophy in Deleuze’s ‘Body without Organs’ I. Introduction – Brian Massumi rightly spells out the Deleuzian philosophy when he calls it ‘self-problematizing’; always confronting the reader with the question of what it is all about, and what to do with it. It challenges the reader to do something with it. It is pragmatic, not dogmatic. Pierre Hadot attributes this distinction between discourse about philosophy and philosophy itself to Stoics: ‘For the Stoics, the…

essay the format of an advertisement for people that oppose the embryonic stem cell research. He uses credible sources to counter argue the opposing party by enhancing that the practice might be wrong, however Britain, the Human Fertilization and Embryology Authority throws the cells away. It would be more wrong and more logical to use the cells for research instead of discarding the cells (Watts, 459). Watts uses many examples to encourage the reader to support his argument by emphasizing how…

Reproductive technology is not a genetic shopping list; it is a way for couples to achieve the goal of having a baby. It also gives hope to the woman who though they would never be able to conceive a baby of their own. There are a vast number of advances happening in the reproductive world with medicine. These advances are to benefit the major of society in counting their generation to come. This process isn’t just about deciding what gender or eye color you want your child to have.…