Epigenetics

Forensic science is one aspect of law enforcement where crime-solving, technology and science meet in support of the Theory of Transfer (When two objects meet, some evidence of that meeting can be found later and verified). There was a significant instance in 1248 where a Chinese Author; His DuanYu published a book (The Washing Away of Wrongs) on how medical knowledge could be applied to solve a crime; for example, distinguishing drowning from strangulation. Fast forward, in 1784 an Englishman…

There are some obvious transcriptional networks transferring AK from the healthy side to the cancerous side. “DNA methylation is a covalent epigenetic modification of cytosine within CpG dinucleotides.” (page 2; paragraph 2 line 1&2) These modifications use enzymes known as DNA methyltransferases to normalize cell identity through gene expression. One recent study showed UV- irradiation from deep-rooted…

On days off, I am busy traveling to other worlds. My morning starts with the the lapping waves of Homer’s wine-dark sea. At lunch, I picnic in the shady groves of Virgil’s Elysian fields, and in the afternoon, I watch the sun set in Orwell’s eerie dystopia. My desire to explore isn’t limited to literary universes, however. It runs deep into my academic pursuits, from humanities to science. I am drawn to Cornell’s College of Arts and Sciences because it offers me the perfect environment to…

STIMULATORY AND INHIBITORY KILLER IMMUNOGLOBULIN-LIKE RECEPTORS IN NATURAL KILLER T (NKT) CELLS IN PATIENTS WITH SYSTEMIC LUPUS ERYTHROMATOSIS: RELATION TO DISEASE ACTIVITY By Aya Mohammed Ibrahim Askar INTRODUCTION Systemic lupus is a chronic autoimmune disease with a wide variable manifestations that affect almost any organ systems (i.e. skin, joints, kidney, and nervous system) . The diagnosis of SLE is depend on a combination of laboratory evidences and clinical…

Possible Modifications of Central Dogma of molecular Biology Introduction The central dogma of molecular biology is describes the transfer of genetic information within a biological system and was first stated by Francis Crick in 1956. The central dogma is the flow of genetic information as ‘’DNA makes the RNA and RNA makes the protein.’’All biological cells with few exceptions in some follow this rule. This flow takes place through three fundamental processes: replication, transcription and…

create glasses, and wonders how long it will be until humanity has enough resources to create different styles of glasses again, and how long it will take until there is a market for them. The way he utilizes the power of technology, such as using epigenetics to save the human race, really makes this a very good book. I would wholeheartedly recommend this book, and at almost 900 pages, this book has enough detail to entertain, but it is written well enough to still be easy to follow, without too…

honey bees in her lab to study the origins of social behavior. She investigates the honeybee social structure in an effort to understand how social behavior evolved from ancestral solitary forms of life. She has expanded this research to aging and epigenetics as she and her research team gained a better understanding of honey bee social behavior. It is important to have more information on how behavior affects, and is affected by, the social environment, as well as identifying and studying…

Influential People who contributed to Genetics: James Watson: James Dewey Watson is a Nobel Prize-winning biophysicist and researcher, who is credited with co-discovering the the double-helix structure of the deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) in 1953 with Francis Crick. Crick and Watson’s first efforts towards learning the structure of the DNA came up with many attempts, but it eventually concluded in the spring of 1953. Their research portrayed the DNA model pulling forth the double-helical…

with activation of oncogenes. Carcinogens bring about mutation in the genes that induce development of cancer. About 30 percent of lung adenocarcinomas are brought about by a mutation in the K-ras proto-oncogene. It has also been reported that epigenetic alterations that happen on genes may lead to inactivation of tumor suppressor genes. This, therefore, implies that proliferation of cells will be uncontrollable leading to lung cancer. The epidermal growth factor receptor (which functions to…

For this juvenile delinquency film assignment, I viewed the movie Juice. I will attempt to highlight some of the delinquencies depicted in the movie in this sociology paper. Juice is about 4 teens growing up in Harlem, New York. They often skip school, and instead spend their days hanging out at their favorite spots while dabbling in petty crimes. They are constantly harassed by police and their rival, a Puerto Rican gang. One day one of their friends gets shot, and the teens decide that they…