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medical advancements through the use of animal experimentation” (Hile 72). Doctors and scientists agree that using animals to test new medicine and vaccines is vital for the advancement of medicine. Certain treatments cannot be tested accurately in a petri dish due to the complexity of living organisms, and can only be tested through the use of animals. Despite the benefits of animal testing, many mammals are not treated humanely in labs. The laws in place to protect research animals from…

In 2008, a video was released by People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) that showed severe animal cruelty at Mowmar Farms Hog Confinement, located just outside of Fairmont, Minnesota (Genoways). The video showed employees prodding hogs too crippled to stand with electric prods and beating hogs repeatedly on their backs with metal gate rods (Genoways). Adding to this, the video also revealed the method the workers used to euthanize underweight piglets: a technique called thumping…

Introduction Evolution Canyon is a canyon in Israel where the two slopes face very different conditions. The Northern Facing Slope (NFS) is lush, green, and shaded while the Southern Facing Slope (SFS) is dry and has little protection from intense sunlight. Evolution Canyon is a natural laboratory, meaning that nature has provided variations, allowing it to be a great location for experiments. Specifically, it is a great location to study natural selection and evolution. Researches from the…

Those who oppose embryonic stem cell research believe that all embryos, even if they have not been implanted in a uterus, have a moral standing equal to all living persons, regardless of whether they are in a lab, clinical petri dish, or a woman’s body (Hyun, 2010). When these cells are acquired, a human embryo is essentially “killed” and many argue that this is a form of murder on a human life. Religious opposition to stem cell research claims that human embryonic life exists…

human cloning is that these cells are the very most fragile types of life in our nation and need to be protected from being used as tools for some scientists research(Arnold). To these people they do not see the stem cells as just some cells in a Petri dish. The people that oppose this believe that these cells are potential life and that the scientists that are just tearing them apart to be implanted in other people’s bodies is immoral. “Human life, no matter what form, has an innate value that…

movie Wit (2001) is a tale about Dr. Vivian Bearing, a prolific writer and English teacher that has fallen ill with advanced Ovarian cancer. She then has to adapt to losing her autonomy and being a living experiment to doctors who only see her a petri dish. The story is based on a play written by Margaret Edison that debuted in 1995. Characters include Dr. Vivian Bearing (Emma Thompson) the pretentious Teacher, Dr. Jason Posner (Jonathan M. Woodward) the stunted student, and Dr. Harvey Kelekian…

Advocate of human cloning, Amanda Tattum claims that “There is no morally significant difference between a fertilised egg in a petri dish in an IVF [in-vitro fertilisation] clinic, a cloned cell, and a skin cell: they could all be persons, with the application of modern technology". This statement could easily be manipulated to make the view-point that they are all pointless. The…

because the proponents of embryonic stem cell research use the term pluripotent which is meant to imply that embryonic stem cell cannot make the outer layer of the embryo that is called the trophoblast. However the stem cells that are emptied into the petri dish are able to reform the trophoblast and create an implantable embryo. 4. The embryonic stem cell is related to human cloning because an individual’s cells are duplicated to keep off illnesses and personal diseases, or the effects that…

An alien spaceship slowly emerges from the stars and enters the earth near Antartica. In the Antarctic, A Norwegians helicopter flies very low chasing and shooting at a dog running in the snow. The helicopter attempts to land near an American Antarctic base, but crashes. One sole Norwegian with a machine gun is able to leap out before the crash. Upon seeing this spectacle, a few members of the American research base run out to help. The dog approaches BENNINGS, who is then shot in the knee by…

Eric Von Sossan Mr. Knodell and Mrs. Jones English 10 and Biology 5 March 2015 Cloning Research Paper In a 2001 survey, 88% of Americans opposed cloning (Jones and Carroll). Leon Kass says, "Cloning Represents a very clear, powerful, and immediate example in which we are in danger of turning procreation into manufacture" ("Leon Kass"). But cloning can help in medicine like organ transplants and producing drugs. Cloning has many negatives that need to be accounted for, but the…