Severe combined immunodeficiency

netic disease is prevalent in modern day society and can be debilitating for many. As medical research helps us understand what causes these disorders and also are starting to understand how to treat and even prevent genetic disease. Many individuals have undergone genetic testing to determinate if they carry the gene for certain genetic mutations. A high profile example of this is when Angelina Jolie had a double mastectomy after learning she carried the BRCA 1 gene hence decreasing here chance of developing cancer. There are ever increasing treatments for genetic disease which include gene therapy. Severe combined Immunodeficiency (SCID) or more commonly referred to as ‘Bubble Boy Syndrome’ is a rare genetic disorder. Most cases of SCID…

Bubble Boy Disease Popped Kaylynn A. Foulk, Cinema and Television Arts Major, California State University, Fullerton Abstract This research paper explores severe combined immunodeficiency disease based from the research provided by four different articles and a book. Two of the articles were provided by the professor, but the other two articles I have researched on my own. The research paper provides a brief description of severe combined immunodeficiency disease and how it affects the immune…

The “Bubble Boy” gene therapy experiment is one of the experiments on gene therapy. Gene therapy is still a moral debate to this day, some people beg the question if it’s okay to use gene therapy or what would it do to the human body which are all great questions. The discussion will be on whether the “Bubble Boy” gene therapy experiment was ethical or not and if the treatment was worth the risk. Basically the “Bubble Boy” experiment was on children suffering from the bubble boy disease which…

When a child is diagnosed with a life threatening diseases their immune systems are sometimes compromised. What this means is their bodies natural ability to fight off infections and diseases is greatly reduced or reduced so much that it is almost nonexistent. There are many different diseases and conditions a person can have that can lead to a compromised immune system. A few of them often present in children include cancer and organ transplants. Some children are also born with immune systems…

I chose a governmental website in order to look at HIV/AIDS through a biomedical standpoint. This website provides the basic facts in regards to HIV/AIDS, treatment options, reducing risks, potential health related problems, and other biomedical criteria. In addition to this viewpoint, the website involves methods of coping for patients as well as friends and family, legal rights, and discrimination. The human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) is defined as a communicable disease that is transmitted…

My colors sure are hidden! Hidden colors is a documentary backing up the truth of our people of color around the world. The information is discussed through scholars, historians, and social commentators who know the amazing facts of our history. The facts given through this documentary had me questioning everything I have ever learned in a normal history class. For example I was taught “Christopher Columbus discovered America”. When America was already inhabited by Native Americans long before…

Fear, Ignorance & Myths=Epidemic Proportions A deadly disease spread faster than the science to treat and explain it, but years would go by before the American people would demand to know why, thereby creating a perfect storm. Fear and ignorance such as the idea that HIV was a gay person’s disease and contracting it was God’s punishment would fuel the power vacuum that allowed HIV rates to rise to epidemic proportions. Ultimately, because the American public believed this myth, these factors…

Pandemics are events in which a disease spreads across the entire world. Many pandemics have become notorious for their lethality, symptoms, or historical events that surrounded them. Various notorious and formidable pandemics include the ‘Black Death’ and the human immunodeficiency virus/acquired immune deficiency syndrome (HIV/AIDS) pandemic. The ‘Black Death’ was a pandemic caused by the plague that killed an estimated 25 million people (“Black Death”). The HIV/AIDS pandemic killed an…

Viruses are miniscule organisms which are too small to be seen with a normal microscope. Invented in the 1940s, the electron microscope allowed scientists to see that a virus is nothing more than a core of genetic material (RNA or DNA), concealed in a protective protein coat. The tiny agents of disease are not referred to as living things, due to the fact that they cannot replicate on their own. They must attack the cells of another living organism and take over the cells' machinery to then make…

Genital herpes is one the most common sexually transmitted disease that is caused by the herpes simplex virus. The herpes simplex virus is a double stranded DNA virus that belongs to the herpesviridae family (Garland 2014). There are two classification of this virus, the HSV-1 and HSV-2. The HSV-2 is the type that usually causes genital herpes, but there has been an increase of genital herpes caused by the HSV-1 type in recent times. This literature review is going to be study the causes,…