Virtually every disease will have it as one of its treatments." Scientists will go forward with their research to do what they set out to do. ... People should be allowed to decide for themselves if they want to know what their genetic flaws are. For some people knowing that you will eventually come down with a disease can be emotionally destructive as having the disease itself. ... No person is able to control what genes they will get ,because you have a bad genetic makeup doesn't mean that you are a bad person, and you should not be discriminated against because of a genetic weakness....

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It is currently unknown what effects the body will have upon the introduction of a new gene into it. ... No test can be one hundred percent accurate, but what insurance company would want to insure a client whose genetic makeup indicates the chance of developing debilitating diseases that would require extended medical stays? ... First there are the emotions of one that is likely to develop a disease. ... You are entitled to know this information just as you are entitled to know your blood type, or your cholesterol level. ... Life is what you make out of it. ...

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Gattaca it's not kind of future that people wants to live in, what people are looking for, to live in is a society where diseases can be cured and they can live longer and healthier, but not in a society where they have to be procreated in a test tube, where diseases or any weakness be avoided like in Gattaca society. ... In Gattaca world DNA is what maps human entire life and gene has the power and the control of the society. ... In Gattaca world, discrimination is based on genotype, not phenotype; your genes would analysis and determine where you belong in life and people did not det...

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How do you feel about cloning? Do you believe it is right? ... It is you who has to decide your view on this issue, and try to do something about it. ... Its purpose is simply a way to try to extend human life, which is what medical science has been doing since man's beginning. ... It is now up for you to decide. ...

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Along the way, they hope to develop methods of treating certain genetic diseases, such as Alzheimer's and Huntington's Disease. They plan to do this by identifying the DNA sequence of an abnormal gene in which a disease originates and comparing it with the data of a normal or healthy gene. ... Researchers have successfully located the gene and DNA sequence for many diseases. ... (Elizabeth Pennis, 2003) When The Human Genome Project is completed, scientist will be able to point out any gene on any chromosome and tell you what it controls. Huntington's Disease is located on ...

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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 order to understand why the debate has risen into vast proportions it is best to define what genetic enhancement can offer, in terms of science and healing, and what it should exclude. ... Another important exclusion is what is considered to be "designer" genes. In an effort to prevent discrepancies amongst people of this nation, strict guidelines should be set forth defining what is considered to be a "designer" alteration and what is prevention. If we...

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To make these vector you have to take out the insides of the virus of the genes , than you take the ones that can be harmful and put it to the host of the cell. At the same time , you have to keep the genes that enable the retrovirus to insert DNA into host chromosomes in position. ... For an example if you have a genetic diseases in which a single known gene does not function properly , such as sickle cell anaemia , thalassaemia and Lesch-Nyhan syndrome, are most suitable to be treated with the gene therapy. There are two types of gene therapy in curing these diseases, patient the...

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They might use situation ethics, where you must do what the most loving thing is. ... They believe that using treatments like GIFT and IVF are just using Gods" gift of intelligence and it is what he wants. ... The idea of altruism says that you should do what you can to help someone, this seems to make donating organs ok. ... Recently cloning has been used to grow healthy cells to replace/ cure diseased ones. ... By trying to make a perfect world free of disease we are cheating and would be disobeying god. ...

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They have the technology available to remove diseases or enhance looks and abilities. ... You can not conceal what type of genes you have; getting screened is an everyday procedure. ... The way you find friends or a significant other should have nothing to do of what genes they are composed of. You were judged on what rating you received to see if you were a good catch or eligible for a certain position. ... Gattaca is what happens when genes become the main theme in life. ...

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Power of how they want their child to turn out will be put in the hands of the parents and the child will have no voice to be able to declare what they want out of their life. ... You may be able to alter the "bad gene- for that one generation, but there is no way to tell if you will create consequences for the generations to come. ... The genetic therapy used today, has the ability to cure genetic diseases; but the gene therapy might affect more than that gene which carries the disease. ... The government would have to consider life-threatening diseases to cosmetic genetic engineering. ...

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If you alter a baby embryo's genes, they will have a good or bad consequence out of it because we don't know yet what altering a baby embryo's genes can do to a person. ... Thousands of adults may have no idea that they are a carrier for a recessive disease. ... An example of this incident is Hunnington's disease. ... You could also consult a priest so that you can see what his views are about genetic engineering and where he stands on it. ... You can also see what drove them to even go and try to experiment on genetic engineering and you could also try to convince them tha...

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The Mutations of chromosome 15 that can cause disease Chromosomes are found everywhere. ... As you can see above, every chromosome contains many genes. ... A strip of the double helix is one gene, as you can see in the picture. ... The point of the project is for scientists to have a better understanding of how genetics contribute to human disease. ... What would one rather have: Having an abortion after amniocentesis or the child with Down syndrome? ...

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If you recieved information regarding what potentially could be a fatal medical problem in the future, how will that mentally affect the individual, their family, and their work? ... However, what if the genetic testing performed on the mother proved to be inaccurate? ... Some of these include sickle cell, alzheimer's, cystic fibrosis, and huntington's disease. ... Today in medicine, one of the most prominent issues of curing a disease is first locating it. ... In the medical world, the HGP can create new jobs, as well as many cures for diseases we are stumped by. ...

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Many of those identified as carriers mistakenly thought they were afflicted with this debilitating disease. ... The knowledge derived from the project will enable physicians to detect an increasing number of diseases and predispositions for diseases. ... Further development could lead to a complete knowledge of who will develop a disease and when. ... The essence of insurance is you assess a risk against the unknown; if there's no medical unknown, the only unknown is whether you're going to get hit by a bus." ... The companies may become extremely hesitant in insuring...

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What dose really cause and effect of being different from another? ... When the DNA is collected all together you have a genome. ... Analyzing the human genome will give us insights into why people like the foods they do, why certain people die of heart disease and others of cancer, and why some people are outgoing and others are paralyzed by shyness. In fact these genetic variations gives us clues why one person has a disease that another doesn't, why one is happy and another depressed and why one individual is unique from another. ... Blueprints are what make us to be in same species. ...

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If the eggs are good, and you get to this step they are probably going to get them to hatch because you have went through the hard part. ... Geneticists for cloning fell that new cloning techniques have made what was once believed impossible now possible. ... Cloning dinosaurs could help to develop new drugs to fight human diseases. ... Reason number 3 we must find what the genetic code of the animal is. ... The last reason is if you get the egg to hatch, you now have to bring it into a world 65 million years after their existence. ...

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What they also failed to mention was that ultimately, drugs could be designed utilizing this data, to attack such diseases. ... One may ask why and what puts the Icelandic genome on the proverbial hot plate? ... Gary Taubes explains, "There are advantages in having this data when studying DNA, along with advances in biotech and computing, you could simply take a few hundred or a thousand victims of disease, analyze their DNA, compare it to the healthy individuals and identify the salient differences." ... Hlodan gives an example, "The arrangement with Hoffman-LaRoche for 12 diseases netted th...

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By using biotechnology, you can make a stronger strain of the same substance. You can also give better nutrition to and flavor to foods and give it the ability to fight off pest and diseases. ... It is important to understand what biotechnology is and how it can be used to create solutions for tomorrow's world. ... Biotechnology is providing real answers to some of the greatest challenges we face in this new century, such as hunger and malnutrition, as well as more effective ways to prevent diseases and treat serious illnesses. ...

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Cloned stem cells may be more competent at replacing tissue damaged by disease or age than those from other sources. ... What occurs in this situation is adult cells are taken from a person's body, cloned embryos are created, then embryonic stem cells are extracted, which can turn into a wide range of tissues, all a perfect mach for any patient. 3. ... This can lead to genetic errors that result in disease. ... I hope that you have learned more about cloning than you previously knew, and that this information allows you to be a better judge of weather or not cloning should be supported ...

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Truthfully, there is no telling what the future holds, other than the ability to research and understand more about this incredible science of genetics. ... However, one type of disease is not caused by a bacterium, but an organism's own defective genotype. ... Thousands of adults may have no idea that they are a carrier for a recessive disease. ... An example of this incident is Hunnington's disease. ... Our writers can help you with any essay topic, any form of report, any essay volume and level of writing. ...

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If you intentionally had your own child suffering for someone else, then what right do you have to call yourself a parent? ... Parents, despite what they may say, love their children exactly the way they are. ... It may give us the ability to cure or prevent previously incurable diseases. ... When it comes to that time, we must realize what it actually is that we are dealing with. ... If you want a tall child, marry tall. ...

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If you look in any standered highschool or collage basic biology book you will see the same basic format. ... You can read about the process of meiosis and meitosis and the structure of a DNA molecule! ... Many of these early scientific discoveries delt with finding causes for and curring diseases! ... He realized a much milder form of the disease found in cows could be introduced to humans allowing them to form antibodies and a resistance to the deadily disease (Edward Jenner 1,2). ... Now what the plant was giving off could be explained by what it was taking in. ...

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There are some common things you need to know genetics to understand the project. ... While doing this they plan to find out what coding causes what traits and diseases in better hopes of preventing or correcting them before they become evident. ... Cells are told what they are doing through DNA. ... The medical field would be better able to diagnosis disease and better able to understand how to treat it. They would be able to prescribe a more personal type of drug that would work better for your body to fit any problem you may have. ...

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First, I thought it would be useful to give you some background on the biotechnology industry. ... Our understanding has reached the stage where scientists use the technology to try to understand the basis of disease. ... We did not understand what was wrong when someone was sick, just that this or that chemical seemed to help. ... We now look at the mechanism behind the disease and then develop a drug to alter the outcome. ... Three years ago, many of you heard about Dolly, the first cloned animal. ...

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This means what was once a free and renewable resource is now something that must be purchased every year at a high cost. ... "Of course we're afraid, you can't defend yourself against these people. ... Curing and treating these diseases is almost indefinitely limited by Myriad's greed. Myriad controls the fate of everyone that has one of "their " patented diseases. ... There is little hope we as a species can collaborate and decide what's best for everyone. ...

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