Embryonic stem cell

Looking at the decline of U.S. investment in global research, the increase in industry sponsored research, the closeness of university research to the marketplace, and the shortage of STEM educated college graduates and technicians, American research administrators could soon experience a rather unfortunate series of events. From being more overworked to witnessing the eradication of the career altogether, research administrators can…

What is the public opinion on genetic testing? Some see it as a faulty and unreliable waste of time and money, and others that truly understand it see it was a very beneficial way to save millions of lives. Genetic testing uses laboratory methods to look at your genes, which are the DNA instructions you inherit from your mother and your father. Genetic tests may be used to identify increased risks of health problems, to choose treatments, or to assess responses to treatments (NHGR 1). Genetic…

The Human Genetic Modification, a new futuristic medical tool, comes as a blessing but also comes as a curse too. Can we even handle this gift that was bestowed to us for its usage? That, however, would be answered; as Opposition. In the articles, “Understanding Genetic (diseases)”, Dr. Maggie Pearce, a Geneticist, stated, “[Broken Genes] Too hard to fix someone’s broken genes”. Likewise, to believers, human genetic modification comes as a blessing to few dozen people, but the thoughts itself…

Greeting fellow peers I want to thank you all for coming out to hear my speech.I would like to start off with a quote."Every risk is worth taking, as long as it's for a good cause, and contributes to a good life." ~unknown. I strongly believe major explorations are worth the risk.Why?I say this because taking a risk can help you accomplish new things that either you wanted to do or never did.Listed in front of me I have 3 reasons cite about why major explorations are worth the risk. For…

In the video it describes the dilemma of cloning and how certain individuals feel as if this is dangerous and immoral. Unfortunately, several people are scared of cloning and what it could do to our society as well as how it could compromise the dignity of human life as we know it. It is true that scientific inventions and technology can be abused, but if we stick with “what-ifs” and our fears, we can never learn the full potential and ingenuity of biotechnology as a whole. Regardless on if…

During this lab observations of the external and internal structures of seastars were examined through dissection. Most notably, seastars are creatures that are deuterostomes. First of all, deuterostomes are organisms within Echinodermata and Chordate phylum that developed anus first. The egg for echinoderms have a little quantity of yolk that allows the egg to divide in its first and second cleavage stage into four equal blastomeres; this is also known as holoblastic cleavage. Although, if the…

From one cell to two-hundred different kinds of cells. Cell differentiation is the process of a cell changing from one cell type to another in developmental biology. In this process stem cells are used. A stem cell is a cell that has the ability to continuously divide and differentiate into various other kinds of cells or tissues. The process of differentiation results from the protein make-up of a cell. The blueprints for making these proteins are found in the nucleus of each cell as DNA; thus,…

“Designer Babies” is a layman’s term used to describe what is known in the medical field as genetically engineered of human gametes, zygotes and embryos also known as germ line modification, (Wikipedia). There are countless problems surrounding designer babies, an example being a gene does not code just for one function, thus a gene medication can be used to solve a problem while it causes another problem involuntarily, (world press 2013, April 28). People have questions about this process…

theorized that “50 to 150 babies were may be born per year from artificial conception with donated sperm.” (Caldwell, 125). In 1934 the first in vitro fertilization was performed on a pair of rabbits. By 1978 according to the Human Fertilization and Embryonic Authority, “over 12,000 in vitro fertilization babies are born in the United Kingdoms each year” (HFEA). In vitro fertilization provides couples with the chance at children when the woman’s fallopian tubes have taken…

Potter Stewart once said, “Ethics is knowing the difference between what you have a right to do and what is right to do.” In the article,”Of Headless Mice…and Men” by Charles Krauthammer, it explains how it is unethical for scientists to create human clones for the sole purpose of disemboweling the body for personal needs. These human clones would be human in every form and way, however, a scientist would remove the forebrain. Although the cloning of humans would be promising for people's health…