Medical genetics

The article “listening for the Public Voice” by Robert Cook-Deegan and Jane Maienchein discuses the many arguments, both for and against, surround human embryo gene mutation and experimentation. They then provide multiple examples from scientific history in which the practices had faced the same amount of scrutiny from the public, yet once people saw the rewards that could result from these practices, they allowed these practices to become “normal”. In the article “Listening for the Public…

Lucille Roybal-Allard quotes “Newborn screening is a public health intervention that involves a simple blood test used to identify many life-threatening genetic illnesses before any symptoms begin.” Informed consent is permission granted in the knowledge of the possible consequences, typically that which is given by a patient to a doctor for treatment with full knowledge of the possible risks and benefits. Informed consent is needed to protect both parties. The quandary that is faced is that…

sample. Despite the wide variety of methods used, there are some similarities among them. In general, they aim to separate DNA present in the nucleus of the cell from other cellular components. Isolation of DNA is needed for genetic analysis, which is used for scientific, medical, or forensic purposes. Scientists use DNA in a number of applications, such as introduction of DNA into cells and animals or plants, or for diagnostic purposes. In medicine the latter application is the most common. On…

processes and perhaps by God's will. Human is trying to take the initiative on its own. This is highly arrogant and risky. Never before has human attempted to perform life-creating tasks. Human is not merely copying life artificially or modifying it by genetic engineering. Human is going towards the role of God and creating synthetic life that could never have existed. Human cannot create life Human can only manipulate it. One can modify and manipulate already existing biological material. No…

results in a thick, sticky mucus that affects the respiratory, digestive and reproductive system, as well as the increased salt in sweat that had been noticed in history. It was not until 1938 that the first reference to cystic fibrosis was seen in medical literature. The pathologist Dr. Dorothy Anderson describing the disease “cystic fibrosis of the pancreas”, based on autopsy findings on children who had died from malnutrition (Nick, 2012). The purpose of this paper is to explore the disease…

When you walk into a laboratory of biology, you will see people recording, discussing, and testing. Biology is a science that based on thinking and testing of a theories. Scientists of biology will join together to gather and information in the laboratory, forming a discourse community. A discourse community is a group of people who have common interest and have methods for communicating ways to achieve those goals. According to author Gary D. Schmidt and William J. Vande Kopple in “Discourse…

produce mucus, sweat, saliva, tears, and digestive enzymes.” (Genetics, 2015) Victims of Cystic Fibrosis, have a defective CTRF gene. People with only one copy of the defective gene are called carriers. “About 1 in every 31 Americans is a carrier of the defective Cystic Fibrosis gene, yet do not have the disease. There are more than 10 million carriers in the United States.” (Cystic, n.d.) Cystic Fibrosis is an Autosomal Recessive genetic disease. “An Autosomal Recessive Disorder means two…

Academy High School where she was seen as a bad student. She attended and graduated from the University of Chicago in 1957. She continued her education at the University of Wisconsin at Madison earning a master's degree in zoology, and her Ph.D in genetics from University of California, Berkeley in 1965. In between her undergraduate and graduate studies she met Carl Sagan and they married soon after. She was a professor at Boston University until 1988 where she was named distinguished…

“Sometimes things are hard, and some things are right. And some things are both. This is one of those things.” –Tim Cook Now when Tim Cook said this he was in no way referring to genome editing, but his words can be applied to many difficult situations. Imagine a world where doctors are gods creating and designing the next generation of human beings. Before a baby is even born they are able to go in and pick and choose what the baby will look like, what abilities they have. They can remove…

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