Genomics

Shi & Singh (2015) states integration refers to the health care organizations strategies in order to achieve economies success in operation, diversify exiting operations with new products, and services. Integration in healthcare grew from the need for alternative delivery services for medical care and the growth of innovative technology and managed care (p. 361). According to Shi & Singh (2015), the two major service strategies for integration health care are horizontal integration and vertical…

The Return to Care Program provides an opportunity for pre-health professionals to volunteer for twelve weeks in any department at Athens Regional Hospital. Per request, I was assigned to the neurology floor, where I comforted and provided assistance to both patients and their families. This allowed me to have direct patient interaction as well as learn new skills by observing the technicians, nurses, and doctors working around me. It was during this experience that I learned the true reality of…

TA-65. Popularized by Suzanne Somers in her book, Bombshell: Explosive Medical Secrets that Will Redefine Aging, TA-65 has been shown to lengthen telomeres in DNA strands, which can help slow aging, hinder the development of cancer and decrease genomic instability. TA-65 is only available through authorized, board-certified physicians. TA-65® was discovered by the biotech company Geron Corporation and is licensed for sale through T.A. Sciences. TA-65 turns on the telomerase reverse…

Madhavi Ramnath Genetics and Genomics Maple Syrup Urine Disease Maple syrup urine disease (MSUD), first characterized by John Menkes in 1954, is an inborn error of metabolism involving the catabolic pathway of the branched‐chain amino acids, where there is difficulty in breaking down certain parts of the protein (leucine, isoleucine, and valine). This leads to a buildup of chemicals in the blood and the build up of ketoacids, which give rise to the ‘maple syrup’ or burnt sugar smell in the…

Summary: Obesity is a growing problem, especially in western society, and as a result, there are more tools being added to the market to “solve” this problem. From liposuctions, to multiple weight-loss programs, a new product is emerging using the science of bacteria in the gut. By observing rodent models, it can be concluded that microbiota influences the phenotype of an organism. Microbiota from fecal samples are transferred from two sets of human twins (one twin lean, one twin obese) into…

The scientific advancement and the preservation of species continue to help with understanding why animals became extinct in the first place. Just as noted in the article by Carl Zimmer, “De-extinction advocates counter that the cloning and genomic engineering technologies being developed for de-extinction could also help preserve endangered species, especially ones that don’t breed easily in captivity”. The expense of cloning has been a concern. Carl Zimmer later states, “And though…

Histological analysis Tissue harvested from the distal colon (1 cm from the rectum) was cut into segments, fixed with 10% formaldehyde overnight, embedded in paraffin, sectioned at 5 μm, mounted on clean glass slides, and stained with hematoxylin and eosin (H&E) for histological evaluation. Each slide was coded and analyzed in a blinded fashion by two investigators using light microscopy. Each sample was assigned a histological score based on cumulative scores assigned to colon characteristics…

Genetics, genomics, robotics, and online health records were some of the many advancements in technology used in nursing today. Genetics and genomics deal with the makeup of DNA and chances to contact a disease that could possibly be inherited from parents or grandparents. Robotics are being used more often to provide less invasive…

flavithermus AK1 was obtained from the NCBI server (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/assembly/GCF_000353425.1/and http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Traces/wgs/?val=APCD01). Afterwards, the genomic circular map was generated by usingClicO Free Service (ClicO FS), an online web-service based on Circos[17]. Briefly, 3 text files were prepared in order to run in the online server, i.e., a seven columnskaryotype file containing information of 50…

constitutively expressed beta-subunit. In this experiment, the hypothesis being tested was if HIF1α and HIF2α regulate different genes in multiple myeloma. This was tested using the cross chromatin immunoprecipitation technique, coupled with the use of genomic sequencing. This technique offers to discern the sites at which the HIF1 and HIF2 proteins are binding to the DNA, and allow to infer the likelihood that these two proteins are regulating different genes in…