Genomics

Iceland) experienced this when a former employee shared the company’s “proprietary genealogical database, research plans, methods and tools to another company as they prepared to form a new venture that would compete with deCODE—the Center for Applied Genomics at the Children 's Hospital of Philadelphia” (Elliott, 2007, para. 3). Although, litigation was brought against the employee, oftentimes it is too…

Bioethics is the study about morality of healthcare policy and biotechnology related issues. As science and technology progresses over time, it is essential to evaluate the new innovations and procedures to avoid major problems. Before the advancement of technology, designer babies were an idea from a science fiction story. Designer baby is the term used to describe a child conceived from genetic engineering for the purpose of selecting special traits. Almost one million babies have been born…

these rats behave when they are injected with streptozotocin (ICV-STZ); it is a chemical that is particularly toxic to the insulin producing beta cells of the pancreas in rats in type 1 diabetes. Classes such as Bioinformatics I, II and Computational Genomics has help me to broaden my knowledge because it forms a connection of how diseases came about and possible cures we can find for any particular disease. For example, my final presentation was based on the Neanderthals and how we inherited…

Discussion: The isolate studied was tested for innate antibiotic function on the following media: AC, LB, and 10% TSA. The ESKAPE relative strain that presented a response to the isolate was B.subtilis. In all cases except for that of LB, the isolate showed antibiotic qualities towards B.subtilis by presenting a zone of clearance on AC and 10% TSA media. This behavior is shown in Figures 4, 5, and 6.In the case with LB, B.subtilis inhibited the growth of the isolate as depicted by the empty…

Lassa Fever There are hundreds of different infectious diseases that affect people all across the world. Some infectious diseases effect the human body more severely than others. They can even wipe out an entire community or continent in months. It is important to acknowledge specific viruses and diseases in specific parts of the world that could be in your area or a potential area you want to visit or move to in the future. One disease that exists in a specific part of the world is called…

Microscopy is one of science’s greatest innovations. The microscope has revolutionised countless areas of scientific research and has become an icon of science itself. From Anton van Leeuwenhoek discovering micro-organisms in the 1670’s to the highly powerful atomic microscopes used today, microscopy has furthered scientific knowledge in many, many ways [1]. It has practical applications in very many areas of research such as biotechnology, materials science, microbiology, environmental science…

As many of us already have studied in the past, the human genome can subdivide itself into two parts. The nuclear genome, which consists of over 26,000 genes and the circular mitochondrial genome, which consist of the only consist of 37 genes (“Organization of the human genome” 257). The human genome is vastly large compared to the mitochondrial genome. Mitochondrial has played a significant role in genetics throughout time. For example, mtDNA helped geneticists understand the past and our…

Curiosity to the cause of disease and desire to helping people living in a healthy life are the main reasons for me to enter medicine/public health field. I have strong education background in both medicine and public health fields and have extensive research experiences in basic and clinic research. Due to some personal experiences, I’m specifically interested in cancer related research, such as evaluation of genetic risk factors of cancer, cancer prevention/early detection as well as…

Imagine a small frog crossing a busy highway in order to escape a predator. It has managed to avoid getting run over by cars, and has landed on the road centerline. It is only a matter of time before a car drifts slightly and smashes the frog; is it safer for the frog to stay in the same place, or to complete the journey to the other side and risk getting hit? Humans have crossed half the metaphorical road of environmental control in an effort to escape the hands of the gods. Throughout the…

entire human genome, there are around six billion pairs of these nucleotides. The average human gene is three thousand base pairs long. The human genome contains an estimated 30,000 or more genes, yet these genes comprise less than 5 percent of the genomic material (Eysenck 1990; Collis & Messick 2001). All of this description about the genome is simply background to the question at hand, which is how genes, operating within environments, connect to behavior. Behavior results from the genetic…