Gene Cajayon

Personalized medicine, for those who do not know, is using a person’s genome sequence (sometimes their exome, or a single gene) to make decisions regarding their health and lifestyle. Moalem shares with us a story about a man who was told to eat more fruit by his doctor to improve his lifestyle, and he almost died. He shares with us that “Jeff” had a rare genetic condition…

well as cognitive and psychiatric disturbances (Warby et al., 2014). Sadly, HD’s symptoms generally emerge around the age of 40, while more severe cases emerge as early as in the late teenage years (Maiuri, 2013). In 1993, scientists discovered the HD gene on chromosome 4, which encodes for a protein, named “huntingtin”.…

Sarah Diaz Dr. Basu Bio 572 My Favorite gene One of my favorite genes that I have had the pleasure of working with is known as PROMININ-1, or PROM-1. One of the reasons why it exists as my favorite gene, is because the research lab that I am interning at studies this gene and its role in a very well known and unfortunate disease, biliary atresia. It also is one my favorites due to the fact that it has a lot of potential applications in studying other diseases or further research. These…

had broken off. However, Dr. McClintock felt that if the chromosome had been repressed or had broken off, then it couldn’t make spotted kernels. Thus, she came up with the idea of transposable elements- genes or mutations that move around the genome and in doing so can cause mutations in other genes. Transposable elements are…

instructions to proteins. The central dogma explain the flow of genetic material; starting with replication of DNA then transcription of DNA to RNA and finally translation from RNA to protein. DNA replication is needed to conserve the continuous gene expression. In most prokaryotes and eukaryotes DNA is double stranded, and during replication the strands split in half…

called religion into question when he believed that humans were not created by God, but instead created from other species. Richard Dawkins had the same ideals. He did not believe that humans were God’s creation, but rather that they came from similar genes that started from bacteria. Todd Douglas is a Canadian Journalist who went to school at Vancouver School of Theology. “Such hard-edged atheism is now more strongly linked with biology than any other science…many biologists, suffer from a lack…

DNA in the hopes of eradicating genetic disorders, every individual is going to have a different opinion on the matter. This idea is observed in the two articles; “Gene Therapy: Human Germline Genetic Modifications– Assessing the Scientific, Socio-ethical and Religious Issues” by Qiana Matthews, PhD and David Curiel, MD, PhD and “Gene Therapy: Theoretical and Bioethics Concepts” written by Kevin Smith, PhD. Matthews and Curiel’s article was published in the Southern Medical Journal in 2007,…

essentially has two basic forms: somatic and germline. Somatic engineering targets specific genes within the body without affecting the genes in the eggs or sperm. The objective of this type of human genetic engineering is to treat an existing condition. The important aspect of this is that it does not alter the individual´s entire genetic makeup. The second type is germline engineering, which targets the genes in eggs, sperm, or embryos in early stages of development. The genetic modifications…

important input in individuals. By combining the studies of genetics and psychology it is possible to correlate results from the fields and search for possible, and hopefully specific, genes involved in the expression of certain traits. For instance, Poulin et al (2011) explored the relationship between receptor genes of oxytocin and vasopressin and prediction of prosocial behavior. In this particular study, Poulin et al (2011) intended to “examine whether oxytocin and vasopressin interact with…

Assignment-3: CS696 Programming Problems in Bioinformatics. Describe and discuss different approaches for finding motif in genetic string. Introduction: DNA, RNA and Proteins, these are three types of very large molecules essential for every living organism, for their biological functioning. Each molecule, DNA, RNA and Protein, play a vital role in living organisms, without them no life could survive. Let’s understand functionality one by one: • DNA consists of encoded instructions which are…