Genomics

The healthcare world is moving form treatment to prevention. Integrative health is a huge way to make preventive care successful and long lasting. The practice of Ayurveda specifically, teaches people to practice self-care according to their inherent needs. Moreover, it helps create a sense of self physically, emotionally, mentally, socially, spiritually, and environmentally. All of which allow for a more purposeful and fulfilling life. If someone is living a healthy life style then disease and…

A group of authors, Claudia Kalb, Anne Underwood, and Jonathan Mummelo, constructed an article called “Peering Into the Future” that scrutinized the progressing genetic testing further, stating: “Testing is just one piece of the genomic revolution. A major goal is to create new sophisticated therapies at home in on a disease’s biological glitch, then fix the problem” (Kalb, Underwood, Mummelo 1). By providing readers with another example of advantageous possibilities for the future…

In 2010, UC Berkeley offered a new fall orientation program for freshmen students. It consisted on testing student’s gene to find out how they metabolized lactose, alcohol, and folates. This program led to a huge argument about the ethics behind genetic testing conducted in a non-medical setting. Although UC Berkeley wanted to run this program, California Department of Public Health raised a question about having a doctor 's order that kind of test (Devore). Some people say that this program is…

In the past genetic tests have only been available to those who went to a healthcare provider. As the healthcare world advances, so is the way testing is being provided and made available to consumers who seek genetic testing. These genetic tests are designed to be performed at home by the individual, which are then sent to a laboratory for testing. This at home genetic test is referred to as direct to consumer genetic testing. The relatively new genetic tests, which have only been available in…

While developing countries experience malnutrition due to reliance on single crops, they can be altered in order to produce different vitamins, minerals, or proteins. Herbs for medicinal purposes such as vaccines may be introduced into normal foods in order to produce a cost effective method of administration with ease. Modified oil content in seeds promotes nutrition. Along both intensive and extensive margins within economic production rates in countries, conventional seeds replaced by…

PCR (Polymerase chain reaction) Polymerase chain reaction (PCR) is a laboratory method that is used to form number of copies of a specific region of DNA interested in. The principle of the polymerase chain reaction is based on the natural replication process of DNA and complementary nucleic acid hybridization. The goal of the PCR is to produce required amount of the target DNA region that is be analyzed. PCR amplified DNA is sent for sequencing and visualized by gel electrophoresis. It also can…

4. Plasminogen Activator Inhibitor-1 (PAI-1) PAI-1 is used to evaluate the risk of thrombosis. It is a serine protease inhibitor (serpin), therefore it is also known as serpin E1. Human SERPINE1 gene encodes for PAI-1. PAI-1 inhibits Fibrinolysis through the inhibition of the serine proteases, Tissue plasminogen activator (tPA) and urokinase-type plasminogen activator (uPA), which activate plasminogen. So any increase in PAI-1 decreases fibrinolysis consequently increasing the risk of…

hostile to humans (Lange). However, everything changed once humans learned to manipulate gene expression by only allowing less hostile breeds to reproduce. Although this method of changing behavioral gene expression has much less control on a specific genomic sequence, it still provides us an insight as to how long we’ve been manipulating genes for: approximately 12,000 years (Lange). Subsequent to a more in depth knowledge of DNA, genetic modification became…

Executive Summary The premise of this analytical assessment was to evaluate how Pfizer uses analytics as it relates to decision making. The assessment focuses on the organization as a whole, with interviews from two colleagues in two different business units: Development Operations (GIP) and the Business Analytics & Insight (GEP). Overall, it is evident that Pfizer, as a consequence of being a heavily regulated pharmaceutical industry, must use scientific data to ensure that the products we make…

2.5. Morphological Identification/Evaluations of Entomopathogenic Fungi The six isolates of fungal entomopathogens were provided by Department of Entomology, Penn State USA. Preliminary morphological identifications of fungal entomopathogens such as color of colony, mycelial characteristics and spores from all six isolates were done at microscopic level. 2.6. Molecular Characterizations of Entomopathogenic Fungi Cultures of Metarhizium fungus were grown in nutrient broth (Bacto, Australia) in…