Every year 3 million people die from tuberculosis which is more than any other infectious disease. The problem is that because mostly people in poor countries have been dying from it, drug companies did not care about finding a cure or doing research on the disease. ... It is the most deadly infectious disease so we need to be taking steps towards a cure if we do not want to lose millions more people to this disease. I also wanted to talk about it because we have talked in class about the proteins and how the number of genes and proteins is proportionate and we will be discussing tuberculos...

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The weakest organisms will soon die out and the organisms that carry on the strong genes will pass on in their offspring. ... It may have the chance of disappearance of particular genes as individuals to die out or not able to reproduce. ... This is not a fact, but just only an assumption that we share a common ancestor between the ape and a human. ... Scientists have studied of how evolution first started. ... If it wasn't for evolution, we would not know how offspring traits comes from or the very first cells that were here on Earth. ...

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Most human recipients die anywhere from hours to weeks after receiving the animal organ. ... Baboons and swine both carry numerous transmittable agents and perhaps more that we are unable to detect. ... Do we have the right to take animals organs to save human lives? ... Many animals have endured great misery and have died in xenotransplant research. ... There is a big unanswered question is how well will the animal organs will work in the human body? ...

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DNA is often likened to a software program on a computer because it contains instructions on how to build a living creature. ... Even though the baby mammoth only lived for a few days and was the clone of an animal that died out only a few thousand years ago, this was a big step forward in cloning dinosaurs. ... In conclusion we ask the question, can we bring dinosaurs back? ... Reason four is if we somehow got a whole dino genome we would somehow have to make it assemble into chromosomes, which we don't know how to do with dinosaur DNA. ... The major problem here is that we just have t...

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As of now we have no cure for the Ebola virus. ... From what we have studied kidney failure causes your blood to remain filled with deadly toxins. ... To have any idea of how the Ebola virus penetrates the body one must first look at the structure of the virus. ... In 1976 Ebola infected 284 people and killed 117; In Zaire 318 were infected and 280 died. ...

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How do you feel about cloning? ... Five of those nineteen survived, but four of them died within ten days of birth of severe abnormalities. ... If human cloning was to be allowed, we would be able to clone organs instead of waiting for people to die that are waiting for a transplant. ... However, if we are able to clone humans, we can understand more about these defective genes and replace them. ... Cloning could also provide a copy of a child for a couple whose child had died. ...

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An anthropologist goes out and observes the world because they are interested in all aspects of human behavior and how they interact with each other. ... They go and visit a completely foreign place compared to the everyday world we see and live in. ... One big event that we will never forget is 9/11. Anthropological approach is very necessary in finding out more about the people who were trapped in the buildings and died. ... Although we know what happened on 9/11 from and etic point of view, maybe someday something new will arise where we can know more about the people trapped inside and...

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Scientists were reminded of this when a patient they were treating died in 1999. ... When trillions of the viruses were injected into his body, he suffered a violent reaction to them and died. ... Our morality up to now has been to go ahead without restriction to learn all we can about nature." ... Co-discoverer of the DNA code and Nobel Laureate Dr.James D.Watson takes this approach: we must go ahead until we experience serious disadvantages. According to him that is how learning works: until a tiger devours you, you don't know the jungle is dangerous. ...

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Just as long as there's a major overhauling in the way that we treat criminals convicted of capital crimes. ... Since I obviously wasn't moral enough to see how wrong capital punishment was I was also a dope. ... "If death penalty cases, subject to far more rigorous safeguards than ordinary criminal cases, still manage to convict the innocent, how many innocent people are convicted of crimes that don't carry the death penalty? ... In short, we should maintain order by enforcing a death penalty for severe prison violence. ... The people who would die as a result of this would be ...

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Also we allow mothers to give birth to children who we know will be deformed of disfigured, how is this any different? ... My answer to that is simple, how do you know he is a clone? ... The question is, how much is one willing to sacrifice to achieve this age of prosperity. ... You see some of the tings we love most about the modern world are being able to make our own choices and decide how things are going to turn out. ... And that no matter how badly people want one thing to go away because they believe it is wrong doesn't mean they are right and that no matter how deeply they feel ab...

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The film notes how much we appreciate our sporting heroes, especially Australia, being a very sporty country. ... This reflects upon the positive attitude displayed towards scientific progression, and how cloning can be an advantage to our society. The concept of animal cloning is touched upon when Adam's dog, Oliver dies due to a mysterious virus. ... The film sends the message of how this power can easily fall into the wrong hands, in the film's case, Drucker. ... "I could just go to my lab and we could make the flower in under 5 minutes." ...

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Saving Lives, Changing Genes How far would you go in order to save a loved one from dying from, what is now, a treatable disease? ... In many cases doctors feel that they aren't doing enough for their patients who will eventually die because of an inherited disease. ... Does that mean that we should stop using medicine that science and research has concluded to be effective because wellness shouldn't fall in the hands of scientists? ... If we become a nation of people "dissatisfied by what our youth should naturally look like, than what do we say about ourselves as a whole? Whe...

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In order to understand the importance of cloning, one should consider the benefits that many are suggesting as the reasons we should clone. ... The first controlled study of the lifespan of clones suggests that some cloned animals age prematurely and others die young. ... Many clones die at birth or soon after, which can be linked to premature aging. ... Premature aging of clones can be understood better when the understanding of how aging occurs. ...

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How is it currently being used? ... However, when the stem cells are extracted, the organism dies because the stem cells are necessary for continued development. ... When it dies, the embryo is clearly not human, it is merely a collection of very special cells, less complex in architecture than almost any animal on earth. ... Where are we going to get the eggs we would need to treat the millions of patients who would supposedly benefit from therapeutic cloning? The simple answer is, we aren't going to get all of them. ...

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But we do have a choice. If we support the GE, we have no idea how our world would be altered, transgenes could spread everywhere, the crops would be less healthy or even toxic, which would be harmful to our health. ... Do we really want this to happen? ... We can destroy our nature, harm our nature, but at the end it is only we who may not survive. ... We do not want our next generation to suffer from the altered world, we should stop disturbing the nature. ...

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The young gaur died from an infection about 48 hours after its birth. ... First off this entire book taught me a few basic things about DNA (before we went into detail about it in class), how it's the building blocks of life, and organisms can be cloned, like that sheep, Dolly. Also it taught me how scientific practices differed as the different scientists visited the island. ... The unnamed sheep from which Dolly was cloned had died several years prior to her creation. ...

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According to Theodosius Dobzhansky he said, #"If we allow the weak and deformed to live and propagate their kind, we face the prospect of a genetic twilight; but if we let them suffer or die when we can save them, we face the certainty of a moral twilight." ... I have to disagree with Shannon because how can he say this even though we haven't even achieved genetic engineering and so how can he already know the outcome of what genetic engineering, we've only touched on it and jus begun. ... If we don't go into genetic engineering, we will never know if we are able to alter a ba...

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Until race and other arbitrary factors, like economics and geography, can be eliminated as a determinant of who lives and who dies, the death penalty needs to be abolished. ... With the death penalty in place through errors in the trial process there is possibilities of mistake, which could result in an innocent person losing the most important thing we have; life. ... These statistics are just one example of how the system of capitol punishment has proven to be unreliable. ... Life is the most precious gift we as humans are given and when someone takes a life, the balance of justice is dis...

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Cloning plants is good because we could win the fight against global hunger, but the bad news is that we don't know if cloned food could damage our health. ... "Texas Researches want to learn how genes determine embryo development"; therefore, "Researches found the gene that tells the embryo to produce the head. ... Having no way to breath, the mice died instantly" (Krauthammer 76). I think that is an atrocity to clone a headless animal that won't last for two seconds at the time they are born only because researches want to know how genes determine embryo developments. ... I think t...

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Other ethical principles of concern with genetic engineering include how this scientific field will affect "the distribution of social goods as well as political rights" (David Koepseel). ... Many questions are raised such as "who will have access to these technologies and how scarce resources be allocated?... Our inability to identify the outcome of this science could possibly result as we continue to use this science. ... In addition to food source, Human organs are in dire need and "on average 18 people die every day from the lack of available organs for transplant"...

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On average, two million Americans die each year and the statistics show the impact. 750,000 die from heart diseases, 500,000 from different types of cancer, and 150,000 die as a cause of strokes. ... Scientists are yet to determine exactly how to clone a human brain. ... As we have come to find out, these "test-tube babies" have turned out as predicted. ...

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For example, a young woman Shauna Anderson said, "I"m a 29-year-old girl who's dying of kidney failure, that if I don't get an organ donor by the time I need to have a transplant, I"m dead." ... How? ... In conclusion, cloning is not something we should fear and see as a dreadful thing. ...

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Dolly, for example, the world's first cloned sheep, died very young with many health problems typical of only an older sheep. ... In our society we have a basic family structure. ... This is how grandparent, parent, sister, brother, aunt, uncle, and cousin relations are formed. ...

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This type of rationale promotes a very selfish and egocentric attitude towards the world we inhabit. ... If the idea of fitness maximization were in fact correct, then we would find ourselves living in an incredibly self-centred world. ... If the underlying motive that compels individuals to act is fitness maximization, then how does this theory explain altruistic selfless behaviour? ... Applying this theory to the problems concerning natural selection we can see how this helps. The underlying motivation behind not killing a person and dying for the sake of loved ones is in fact fitness maximi...

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Biotechnology is used every day to change life, as we know it. ... Scientist is learning how to genetically engineer plants to carry vaccinations that can vaccinate people who eat the food (Brown 2013). ... This is important because the planet is dying and we need to conserve our resources and stop global warming. If the planet dies, then all the organisms on the planet will to. ...

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