Gene Sprague

The allergy concern sparks because there is gene escape that occurs when GMOs are engineered. Gene escape occurs when a seed is engineered, and an unwanted gene is transferred to the product seed from the genetical composition of the engineering seed. The significance of this is that now there is a new gene/characteristic in the food that wasn 't precent before. This gene that is now newly present in the food can potentially cause food allergies that were…

evidence showing that it is harmful. Gmos provide a great benefit of food supply across the world, and further innovations can lead to disease resistance, and other future modernizations. The Innovations and Enhancements of Biotechnology Relating to Gene…

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…