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    Thalidomide is a sedative created in the 1950s by a West German pharmaceutical company called Chemie Gruenenthal. Originally it was produced to treat morning sickness, and was used a lot by pregnant women. It was advertised to be safe for both mother and child, because as they tested Thalidomide on rats nothing happened to them, no matter how big the dose of Thalidomide was they got. It was the new wonder drug and sold for 4 years in 46 countries across the world until it got pulled from the…

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    was the story. This is evident in his writing and his unwillingness to acknowledge the strong journalistic work he had done. To him, the only reward needed was the paper going to press. It was at the Sunday Times when Knightley broke the Thalidomide story. Knightley had looked at hundreds of files and did extensive pharmaceutical research to look into the drug prescribed to pregnant women for morning sickness. When the drug was found to cause birth defects in children, Knightley was at the…

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    Braden Kelly AP Biology Mr. Boyd September 13, 2015 Thalidomide In 1954, the drug Thalidomide was synthesized in West Germany. The scientist credited with the creation was Chemie Grünenthal. Three years after it was made, Thalidomide was available to be sold to patients between 1957 and early 1960. In the beginning, Thalidomide was a sedative drug that was supposed to be taken by pregnant women to help calm symptoms that come from morning sickness. It was praised by many as a great, new drug.…

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    Although there had been some earlier calls to require pre-market safety testing, it was due in large measure to the public outcry over the Elixir Sulfanilamide incident that Congress passed the Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act of 1938 (FDCA). The previous year, Elixir Sulfanilamide, a drug which had been used for years in tablet and powder form to treat streptococcal infections, was converted to a liquid form. The new liquid version of Elixir Sulfanilamide used diethylene glycol as a solvent, a…

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    Thalidomide was a godsend for countless pregnant women suffering from severe morning sickness—until their children were born. I'm referring, of course, to the Thalidomide baby disaster. As it turns out, even though Thalidomide had been successfully tested for safety in animals, it was far from safe for use in humans. The horrific birth defects it caused in growing…

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    Autism is usually developed in early brain development in the mother’s womb. But the signs aren’t showed between the ages 2 and 3. “Studies also show that autism is four to five times more common among boys than girls” (Autism Speaks). There is no one cause of autism, just like there isn’t one type of autism. Scientists have found number mutations, and rare gene changes, associated with autism. But the biggest influences of autism are based off of risk genes and environmental factors in early…

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    Different Countries, Same Crimes “Monsters exist, but they are too few in number to be truly dangerous. More dangerous are the common men, the functionaries ready to believe and to act without asking questions” (Primo Levi). There are common people every day who experiment; however, experiments turn evil when they prove genocidal to races. Throughout history, there have been events which most would like to change or forget; likewise, there are events which are repeated, even though the event…

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    An object is chiral if it has a non-superimposable mirror image. Our hands are mirror images that cannot be superimposed on each other therefore they are chiral. There are objects that do have a superimposable mirror image, like a drinking glass or ball and these are known to be achiral (Morris Hein, 2013). A carbon compound needs to have four different atoms or groups attached to at least one carbon atom for it to be classified as chiral (Timberlake, 2009). Chiral compounds are also called…

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    Critical Test In the year 1988, there were 350,000 cases of Polio. In 2012, there were only 223 (“Poliomyelitis). This large decrease in the number of cases of Poliomyelitis is due largely to the efforts of research scientists and the development of vaccines and the improvement of those vaccines. Perhaps just as important as the scientists in this case are the animal subjects in the testing. Animal testing in the scientific arena is vital to the successful discovery of new vaccines, the…

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    Throughout history, animal experimentation has proved to be crucial to the development of our society. Since as early as the 17th century, we see how animal testings have led to important discoveries such as the understanding of the blood circulation and the function of the lungs in Medieval Europe . And now, scientists are relying on chimpanzees in hopes to help create the Hepatitis C vaccine . Overall, I believe that the state’s policy on animal experiments, as it is covered in the Criminal…

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