Petri dish

The intern sighed as she threw away, yet again the remains of a manipulated human embryo into the receptacle. As the intern began to clean the petri dish that once held such a small but significant life, she wondered how the rest of the scientists took killing an innocent life so lightly. Stem cell research is beneficial because it helps to further the research towards the cure of diabetes, cancer, other various diseases and illnesses, and the advancement in the growth of such stem cells also…

years scientists have used IVF and PGD for more physical and characteristical traits like blond hair or blue eyes. During the process ofTo do IVF, scientists combine the egg and sperms provided to form an embryo, take an embryo and an egg with a petri dish, engage in tests, and then puts the fertilized egg inside the mother. The outcome or the end result is known as a designer baby, a child that is or has went through the IVF process. Couples around the United States have been paying clinics or…

An infinitesimal girl, in dire need of a heart transplant, hopelessly looks around her dull hospital room with no excitement in her eyes. At her age, she should be outside but, she is hooked up to a ventilator which is essentially breathing for her. She has been in the same hospital room for the past five months, longing for the heart that she might never get. However, if the U.S government increased funding for embryonic stem cell research, scientists would be able to genetically program…

Introduction: Bacteria are very diverse and are part of the prokaryotic domain. Some bacteria can be harmful, but others can also be beneficial in many ways. There are bacteria everywhere on Earth; places that you would think would have bacteria, like your gastrointestinal tract or our skin (Wenner, 2007). Although bacteria are small in size and are a simple cell organism, it is essential to life. There are different ways in how to distinguish and classify bacteria. One way is you can look…

"Yes boss, it is the same signature. No, I am still looking into it." "I understand, a report will be ready when you return. Have a safe trip." She hung up and placed the phone into her lab coat's pocket before she slid on a new pair of rubber gloves, prepared for another long night in the cold autopsy room. No pun intended, but the cold never bothered her anyway. Securing the procedure mask over her tall nose and thin lips, she focused on the lifeless body that lay face up on the large…

The Immorality of Abortion In 1973, throughout Roe v. Wade case, the Supreme Court decided that a woman's choice of abortion was legally more logical than that of the child inside of the womb. Since then many new medical and scientific improvements have been made which would pose as a threat to this argument. F. M. Kamm in her novel Creation and Abortion says it this way, “Legislation was lax then, and so the theory is that those who proposed the fourteenth amendment, citizens of their times,…

“Right now, millions of animals are imprisoned in laboratories, where they are experimented on and live in constant pain as well as fear of when the next horrible procedure will occur. In addition to being cruel, these experiments are irrelevant to humans.” (Salvona ) Tormenting these underprivileged animals to unnecessary research testing is unethical. Not to mention experimenting on defenseless animals is immoral. Animal testing is unethical, unreliable and can be placed with alternatives. In…

come up with vaccine, thus solving the problem of potential extensive infection. Yet in the sciences, another reason knowledge is produced may be an accident, not to actively solve a problem. Alexander Fleming did not expect to come back to the petri dish he left out for 2 weeks, and discover the mold, which would revolutionize healthcare. This proves that knowledge can be used in other regards, apart from problem solving. For example, the German physicist Wilhelm Röntgen stumbled on X-rays…

Measurement of glutathione Glutathione (GSH) is a ubiquitous tripeptide which serves several vital functions including detoxifying electrophiles, scavenging free radicals and providing a reservoir for cysteine. The sulfhydryl group of GSH reduces 5-5'-dithiobis (2-nitrobenzoic acid) (DTNB) and form the yellow colour product 5-thio-2-nitrobenzoic acid (TNB)21. Measurement of the absorbance of TNB at 412 nm provides an accurate estimation of GSH in the sample. Figure 7. Materials 5×105 cells/mL…

Colonies on Other Planets Isaiah Dokus 1/12/2017 The Earth is deteriorating, and growing faster by the day. We are using up our natural resources faster than I can type this sentence. Eventually, we may need to move. Not to another oil drilling site, but to a completely different planet. Our knowledge of space travel and other technologies is quickly progressing. So we may have a chance on a new world. Other “habitable” planets have been found. The two most discussed are called KOI 326.01…