Membrane biology

According to U.S labs, up to 100 million animals die each year due to animal experimentation in the lab? Animal experimentation is helping the understanding of diseases and new surgical techniques on both human and animals. Animal experimentation also helps the understanding of the correct medicine to use for any specific sickness they might have. Animal experimentations are very harmful the the animal body and is very cruel. Animals both small and large are taken away from their natural…

He was a man with a keen interest in the study of life. He lived in England his whole life and got married to his first cousin, Emma. He was quiet and didn’t say much, but his findings, along with others, are the basis of modern biology. The man who possessed those characteristics was Charles Darwin. He was born in 1809 and at the age of 16, was sent off to medical school, which he had very little interest in. As matter of fact, he often skipped class to study the plants and animals of the…

Animal testing helps researchers in finding new drugs and treatments to improve health and medicine. Many Medical treatments have been made possible by animal testing including HIV drugs, insulin, anti-biotics, vaccines and many more. It has contributed too many cures and treatments that save many human lives. Medical breakthroughs from the last 100 years were from animal research and experimentation. How many people in here have family members with diabetes or just know someone who has it? Do…

Scientist have been working on a question that has been puzzling individuals for centuries, "How does Genetics and the Environment affect intelligence?" After a study done between adopted children, identical and fraternal twins by Jack S. Kaplan, a Professor at Quinnipiac University, he determines environmental factors are as influential as genetics in children. Intelligence quotients in twins are quite similar which proves heredity influences intelligence, while the environment factor has been…

Genetic Enhancement by Walter Glannon Walter Glannon believes in genetic equality and equal opportunities. He thinks that genetic enhancements are morally wrong and unnecessary. He differentiates gene therapy and gene enhancements and says that gene enhancements are morally objectionable because it goes above the normal baseline. He prefers gene therapy because its main objective is to return a person’s function to a sufficient baseline. He provides four premises for his conclusion. Firstly,…

Ghost Hearts Doris A. Taylor, inventor/creator of the ghost hearts constantly harvest organs from the newly dead by re-engineering them. Doris is the director of the regenerative Medicine Research for the center of Cell and Organ Biotechnology at the Texas Heart Institute. Dr. Taylor worked on methods of decellularization and in 2008 she perfected the method. Decellularization is taking all the cells out of the organ leaving it with the lipids, sugar, and proteins. Ghost heart or a ghost-like…

Imagine waiting for so something for months on end, not just a miscellaneous physical item but a key competent in living life; an organ. Organ donations give people barely clinging onto life, a second chance to live. People should become organ donors because, organ transplants save many lives, the demand for organs is higher than the supply, and it is an easy thing that is misunderstood by most. Organ donation is a procedure in which a person who has been pronounced dead can donate their organs…

Environmental Risks: The burning question currently plaguing the minds of millions of Americans is one of morality. Are GMOs environmentally safe? The answer is twofold, depending on your personal stance. Because this question is one of morality and ethics or science verses the higher being, we will look at both sides. From the beginning, many scientists have had concerns that the release of these new organisms, with their engineered DNA could have dire consequences. Those consequences not only…

dollars, May 2012. Wildlife and zoologists need a must be qualified for a bachelor’s degree, or a master’s degree. P.H.D’s are also helpful for a university position. There are courses in ecology, anatomy, as well as wildlife management and cellular biology. Biologists in these fields take courses for a certain group of animals they want to study. Botany and chemistry and physics courses are required for zoologists and wildlife biologists because they need a well- rounded background of science.…

Being able to reproduce and bring new life to earth is a blessing many persons continue to adore. A baby’s first step, first word, and first smile are only a few of an abundance of ‘firsts’ parents look forward to recording or scribbling down in their infant’s baby book. The sullen reality is not all ‘firsts’ are going to aspire great success. Drug abuse is a very serious issue in the United States. According to Erik Erikson’s stages of psychosocial development, “teenagers work at refining a…