Gene Weingarten

Gene Weingarten writer for the Washington post published "Pearls before Breakfast" on April 8th, 2007. The publication became well recognized and won a Pultizer award in 2008. Pearls before Breakfast analysis” was based on an experiment with musician Joshua Bell, Where he posed as a street musician, he was placed in an uniformed environment wearing only a Washington nationals baseball cap and a long sleeve t-shirt with jeans, where mostly government employees were on their way to work and going about their daily lives. Instead of having platform and recognition he was there incognito to see who would stop and appreciate the beauty pouring out of his violin. On Friday morning in the middle of rush hour on January 12, 2007 the experiment resulted in a total of 1,097 people…

There are few genes dedicated to olfactory sense and they are similar in all organisms capable of detecting smell. My Dispute Statement: There are many genes that are used for detecting smell in organisms and by common descent, these similar genes change over time in different organisms. The genes that are dedicated to smell aren’t exactly the same, but mutated and changed to fit each chemical smell. These scent genes cannot be changed dramatically though as big mutations may cause the…

Ricki Lewis’s The Forever Fix: Gene Therapy and the Boy Who Saved It tells the tale of gene therapy’s rocky road from a wild idea people considered to be a “daydream” to a growing field providing lucky individuals with treatment to prevent their life-shattering genetic diseases. In her novel, Lewis discusses two major biological concepts: mutation and gene expression. To give the reader the molecular basis for genetic disorders, mutation is briefly addressed. Lewis gives two different examples…

Mutation in the silencing gene SIR4 can delay aging in S. cerevisiae Gene mutations that affect silencing at HM loci, telomeres and other regions of the chromosome have been shown to relate to stress resistance and aging in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. S. cerevisiae is a species of yeast in which goes through asymmetrical cellular division. Its lifespan is measured by the number of cellular divisions the mother cell is able to complete before death. In the research study by Kennedy et al, the…

Genetic Modification The conventional genetic alteration of the makeup of plants has been occurring for millennia; harvesting the seeds from the best crops and planting them years down the line; breeding and crossbreeding certain genes to make foods grow bigger and give them a sweeter taste. Through this intuitive process, humans have managed to transform the small, wild tomato into a number of different varieties: from big to small, beefsteak to grape, revolutionizing the food industry with…

your child’s life. Around 95% of all gene therapy process results in failures, including disorders, gene mutations or even death (Bohlin). In other words, there is a less than 5% chance that the child will receive the positive, intended results. With these success rates it’s important to ask if it’s worth the chance of doing permanent damage to a child who didn’t even have a say in this process. If the parents chose not to have the procedures done, then there are plenty of other solutions out…

Genetic Engineering Throughout history, humans experience many changes whether it is good or bad. Some of these changes can bring issues into the world. One of these “issues” that humans know today is genetic engineering. Genetic engineering is one of the well known creations known to man kind. However people believe that this creation of alternating Deoxyribonucleic Acid (DNA) can have its negative effects just as it has it positive effects.(“Genetic engineering of animals”). Genetic…

Gene Therapy and Genetic Engineering in Human Beings We, as human beings, all start off the same way. A lucky sperm meets an egg and forms the beginning of a whole new life. From that very moment it is predetermined in our DNA that we will have a certain color of hair, be of a certain height, and what color that our eyes will be. Then, approximately nine months later we are welcomed into the world carrying with us every trait that our DNA tells us to have. People will come in to see the miracle…

to fight it. Since the number of viruses out numbers a number of genes that humans have, it makes sense to have antibodies so the human body can prevail in battle against any type of attacker. 16. Persisting viruses are those that have migrated into our genome over millions of years and have established themselves as our evolutionary partners. As the persisting viruses prosperous evolutionary pathway for human beings. Viruses have the ability to replicate at extraordinary rates, they are able…

World Book Student defines genetic engineering as “techniques that alter the genes (hereditary material) or combination of genes in an organism… Beginning in the 1970’s, scientists developed ways to reintroduce individual genes into cells or into plants, animals, or other organisms” (Rubenstein, 2015). Genetic engineering is a controversial subject not only in science but also in popular culture. Some research, such as stem cell research, has led to serious questions concerning ethics. Other…