Phenylketonuria

What is genetic testing? Genetic testing is a scientific and medical testing where scientists (change scientists to something else) identify for changes in a person’s genes, chromosomes or protein. It is considered when someone wants to identify health risks, allowing the doctor to make recommendations to their health and decrease their chance in developing the certain disease, or to test to see if the person has other genetic conditions, which would impact their chance of passing on or…

Genetic testing is a medical test that examines DNA, identifying any changes in it. The results obtained can determine if a person has or can pass on a genetic disorder or confirm any suspected genetic condition. However, a positive result doesn’t guarantee you would develop a disease even if you are a healthy individual. In return, a negative result doesn’t guarantee you possess a specific disorder. There are different types of genetic testing like diagnostic testing and prenatal testing just…

Delayed/arrested development- this is when an abnormal physical condition is resulted from a defective gene or from developmental deficiencies, which is why learning disabilities are difficult to diagnose and sometimes it is not clear as to why it happened, however the child’s abilities and needs can be assessed to make sure they get help and support. The diagnosis for this is, sometimes learning disabilities are discovered at birth and others are diagnosed much later, when a child is diagnosed…

(-- removed HTML --) Demystifying the Controversy: Is Aspartame Bad or Good for You? (-- removed HTML --) (-- removed HTML --) Today’s consumer foods and beverages have one thing in common; artificial sweeteners. These are synthetic sugar alternatives, which are way sweeter but have no significant calorie contribution. Sucralose and aspartame are some of the most popular artificial sweeteners with a unique combination of high sugar and low-calorie content. However, there are lots of…

For example, when they have the genetic diseases such as Down syndromes, Phenylketonuria, diabetes type 1, they are very difficult to find a job or a partner, or even they can be teased by a lot of people in the society life, so every day, they usually face a lot of challenges from society discrimination. Having a lot of challenges…

The National Alliance for Autism Research (NAAR) Autism Genome Project have discovered irregularities in the corpus callosum (which affects communication between the left hemisphere and the right hemisphere of the brain), the cerebellum (which affects coordination, balance, and motor activity), and an enlarged amygdala. The amygdala plays an important role in emotion and social behavior by linking perceptual representations to cognition and behavior on the basis of the emotional or social value…

Fast Facts • Current evidence shoes that artificial sweeteners do not increase cancer risk, even among high intake users.1 • Current evidence shows that artificial sweeteners do not increase disease risk. In fact, these sweeteners may be used for individuals managing calorie and/or carbohydrate intake.1 • The average American consumes ~22 tsp. of added sugar/day according to the 2001–2004 NHANES study.2 Twenty-two tsp of added sugar adds to about ~352 calories per day. 2 • The NHANES study…

1. Identify five areas in which children’s lives need to be improved and explain the roles of resilience and social policy in children’s development. Five areas in which children’s lives need to be imporved are: health/wellbeing, parenting, education, sociocultural context/diversity, and gender. Children’s health before and after birth can affect their lives and ability to learn, thus it needs to be improved. Similarly, parenting can have a positive of negative affect in children’s lives.…

One of the oldest arguments is the nature versus nurture debate. Each of these sides have good points that it's hard to decide whether a person's development is predisposed in his DNA, or a majority of it is influenced by his life experiences and his environment. The nature versus nurture argument is also known as biological and environmental factors on development. The way in which a child develops and the success they have can be linked to biological factors in the same way in which we know…

Children complain about how their parents do not let them do what they want and how life is “unfair”. They may not get to go out on a Friday night or go to their friends house whenever they want; however, even though it may feel horrible to these kids, the unfortunate times they go through is nothing compared to those of children with the rare condition microcephaly. Microcephaly, a neurological birth defect in which an infants head is tinier than normal when contrasted to infants of the same…