Sequenced genomes

Mapping, and Sharing, the Consumer Genome Analysis Someone knowing who you are, what you like, and where you live is such a scary thought. In the article entitled “Mapping, and Sharing, the Consumer Genome”, Natasha Singer explains who this someone is, this someone is the company named Acxiom. Acxiom is a huge data collecting company, collection data on consumers. Singer gave readers a better understanding of what the consumer genome is and how it is being used every day. However to get a…

Epigenetics translates to “above the genome”, according to Epigenetics article on PBS. Above the genome refers to external modifications to DNA that turn genes “on” and “off”. Although modifications don’t change the sequence per se, it changes the way the cells “read” genes. Essentially, this is what differentiates genetics from epigenetics. Going further into detail, genetics conceptually deal with gene and gene function. This focuses on how DNA sequences make changes in the cell. However,…

Babies Review The field of science is an ever-growing entity, melding our futures with every breakthrough. One field is that of genetic modification. Gene modification usually brings the thought of produce into mind, but this also applies to human genomes. I viewed a TED Talk led by speaker Paul Knoepfler that delves into concerns of these modifications, particularly that of designer babies. Chosen out of a plethora of videos, the subject matter of genetic modification appealed to my interests…

Source 1: Aston, Margaret. The panorama of the Renaissance: with over 1000 images. London, Thames and Hudson, 1996 Origin: The author of this book is Margaret Aston. She is a british historian and an academic specialising in the Late Medieval Period and ecclesiastical history. “The Panorama of the Renaissance” was published in London by Thames and Hudson in 1996. Purpose: Margaret Aston in the historical book “The Panorama of the Renaissance” overall gives a brief overview of what was the…

Hershey a Nobel Peace Prize in viral genetics. After proving our genetics were housed in our DNA, advances on DNA could start. These advances and research into our genome could lead us to cures for cancers. It could change proteins by changing the code that will make them. Eventually we could prevent nearly any disease by changing the genome inside the Mother’s womb. While the baby is still being formed and nothing is for…

Summary: ״The CRISPR Conundrum״ “The CRISPR Conundrum” (2016) by Mary Bates, describes “CRISPR”- clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats, which is a new revolutionary technology in genetic engineering. It is a kind of molecular scissors that can be programmed to snip specific bits of DNA. The article talks about the advantages of CRISPR, yet it describes CRISPR’s disadvantages as well. On the one hand, CRISPR is a cheap and precise technique to edit the DNA of animals,…

Genetic transformation is an important method, in molecular biology and genetic engineering, for transferring DNA amongst a variety of organisms. In Lab five, my lab partners and I used calcium chloride to make the bacterium cell walls more permeable and a heat shocking method to introduce the pGLO plasmid in the E.coli bacterium so that they may exhibit ampicillin resistance. The Goal of the experiment was to observe whether or not, given one of the four specific conditions, the pGLO plasmid…

It’s important to realize that each scientific break through is made possible by the work that came before it. It’s a lot like putting puzzle pieces together, collecting different important evidence until enough puzzle pieces result in another break through. Fifty years ago two scientists announced to a lunch time crowd that they had discovered the secret to life. How DNA changed the world To begin with scientists used to have no understanding of what caused distinct patterns of inheritance.…

“Genome editing” is a form of genetic engineering that involves the addition, deletion, and modification of genes in a genome. The genome of an organism is the full genetic complement of that given organism hence by editing the genome, scientists are able to alter the phenotype of these organisms and can modify the cellular functions occurring within the organism. Mutations in the DNA of an organism occur during DNA replication. For example in the human genome, it is thought that there are 6…

DNA plasmid was added to each of the “+plasmid” and it expresses the ampicillin resistance gene. According to the data, that didn’t happen because the +pGLO LB/amp had 3 white colonies at the end of the bacterial transformation and the +pGLO LB/amp/ara had 2 colonies that glow at the end of bacterial transformation meaning that there was an error in our “+plasmid” which occurred during the lab. We did predict that the -pGLO LB/amp would remain the same with no colonies and -pGLO LB would grow…