Throughout many years of scientific research, there have been many technological and methodical changes towards scientific breakthroughs. ... In recent years, however, there has been a greater demand for science, technology, and engineering fields. ... " Man's spark for curiosity has allowed for inspiration in scientific exploration throughout the years. ... James' curiosity, like a seed, sparked growth in scientific research, and blossomed with the discovery of DNA. ... The human race is like no other species; our minds and emotions allow for inspiration, which result in adv...

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Some values examined in this film include scientific progression, animal cloning, immortality and nature. ... Scientific progression and technology is encouraged in the preliminary scene of the film. ... Use of technology happens when sports star Johnny Phoenix is critically injured by an accident but is cloned to rear a perfect and flawless copy of him. ... This film comments on today's society and the ignorance the scientific community displays when manipulating nature's process. Gardening flowers is usually purely for the long-term satisfaction of growing them from seed or stem, b...

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The scientific outcomes of the human genome project will include a resource of genomic maps and DNA sequence information that will provide detailed information about the structure, organization, and characteristics of human DNA, information that represents the basic set of inherited "instructions" for the development and performance of a human being. The Human Genome Project began in the mid 1980's and was widely looked at within the scientific community and public press through the last half of that decade. ... The Office of Technology Assessment and the National Research Council p...

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The scientific products of the human genome project will include a resource of genomic maps and DNA sequence information that will provide detailed information about the structure, organization, and characteristics of human DNA, information that constitutes the basic set of inherited "instructions" for the development and functioning of a human being. The Human Genome Project began in the mid 1980's and was widely examined within the scientific community and public press through the last half of that decade. ... The Office of Technology Assessment (OTA) and the National Research Council...

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Many questions are raised such as "who will have access to these technologies and how scarce resources be allocated?... At this point within the scientific field, scientists have discovered that "gene's alteration often cannot be predicted"( David Koepsell). ... Genetic Engineering raises many concerns but there are multiple positive traits to this scientific field. ... This field of science may be intrusive of ethical, religious, and moral values, but this scientific field has the potential to solve many of the world's problems.  The products manufactured within thi...

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Genetically modified crops are a hot topic in the scientific world today, both for their potential benefits and their potential drawbacks. ... Genetic modification is a new technology and has potential to improve the quality of crop products. ... Many people feel that genetic engineering is the inevitable wave of the future and that we cannot afford to ignore a technology that has such enormous potential benefits. However, we must proceed with caution to avoid causing unintended harm to human health and the environment as a result of our enthusiasm for this powerful technology. ...

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Vincent's narration at the beginning of the film provides the audience with knowledge as to the state of this futuristic world, and the plot to follow plumbs the depths of the ramifications of excessively advanced technology. It cannot be said that this technology is solely responsible for the degraded state of humanity in Gattaca, since Vincent, a natural born human, has his own shortcomings such as the selfishness revealed in his determination to achieve is goal. ... It is based on no more fact that racism of sexism is, yethas a perception in people's minds as being scientificall...

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With the use technology, scientists are able to genetically modify, as known as GM, foods to make them seem more beneficial to a humans' health, preserve them longer, and to create an ability to not rot. ... With the use of an outrageous cartoon, Wilson shows scientists using high technology machines to make vegetables immune to be eaten by insects. ... In the heavily syntactical essay The Method of Scientific Investigation, 1863 written by Thomas Henry Huxley, Huxley elaborates on the scientific method which is still used today. ... The scientific method isn't just used in the labs ...

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With the rapid growth of the use of technology, researchers are beginning to use genetic technology to obtain a better understanding of the human genome and phenotypes or physical characteristics that result. Genetic engineering, which is also known as genetic modification, is the alteration of genetic substance; it is a scientific alternation of the structure of genetic material in a living organism. ... New technologies like genetic engineering are extremely expensive, which means wealthy people are the only once who will be able to eliminate genetic diseases. ... Personally I believe thi...

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With all the modern scientific advances we are making today, especially in Canada, there are positive effects as well as negative effects. ... The developers of Genetically Modified Foods, Monsanto, Dupont and others, report that they are completely safe and enumerate a list of their scientific advancements in the field of biotechnology in an endeavor to gain public confidence. ... With the ongoing development of technology it is more apparent now then ever the knowledge that scientists hold about genetic modification. ... With the many issues surrounding this technology, such as labeling, ...

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Advancements made through scientific discovery will yield new and powerful technological innovations, ultimately securing an abundance filled, prosperous future. Major technologies are converging and advancing exponentially fast. Vivek Wadhwa, Vice President of Academics and Innovation at Singularity University, says, "These exponential technologies will help us solve many of humanity's grand challenges.... In addition to developing technologies for energy conservation and water purification, it is imperative that we continue to make similar size strides in the science behind human h...

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Countless organizations like Greenpeace and PSRAST (Physicians and Scientists for the Responsible Application of Science and Technology) have concentrated their efforts on increasing public awareness and hopefully thwarting such scientific progress. ... While defenders of this technology argue that all of these risks mentioned are low, critics to genetic modification argue that we do not know enough about this technology to rule out any of those possibilities and they also mention the fact there has been some evidence of damage to the environment. ... The reason being is that there is really...

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Information generated and technologies developed will revolutionize future biological explorations. ... Medical practices will be altered when new clinical technologies based on DNA diagnostics are combined with information coming from genome maps. ... The information we gain from these types of studies will then allow us to develop new technology that will revolutionize future biological explorations. ... It should be used to cure diseases by gene therapy and to better our lives with this technology. It should not be used to make a "Super Breed" of humans or cloning as this is a major ethic...

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This process of so called "gene-manipulation- is scientifically called genetic engineering, which is the method of altering and manipulating organism's genetic or hereditary material to eliminate undesirable characteristics producing new desirable ones. ... To some genetic engineering might seem as a new application of technology that can have a positive impact on society, however there are many underlying issues that are making some question how ethical and safe it really is. ... As with all scientific experiments there will be good and bad side effects, long term side effects are just t...

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Genetic engineering is a new and in many ways inadequately understood form of technology that makes many consumers doubtful of the actual positives that this form of technology presents and fear the possible repercussions. One of the main uses of this technology is to make food more visually appealing, but some people fear that these new genetically modified foods are a counterfeit freshness and the actual nutritional content of the food may decrease over the period of time, although the food still appears to be fresh. ... It has been scientifically proven that genetically modified corn is h...

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Such rapid advancement could provide many benefits; Cathy Becker of ThriveOnline writes that such technology could make foods more nutritious, cause an increase in crop yields, provide more powerful control over pests and weeds, reduce the use of some pesticides and herbicides, and enhance the nutritional value of crops. ... Stanley Cohen and Herbert Boyer discover recombinant DNA technology in the 1970s, making it possible to isolate individual genes, alter them, and copy them in cells, opening up vast commercial possibilities (Genetic). ... In her article in the Cambridge Scientific Abstra...

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In our modern day world, the technology of genetic engineering and human cloning for the use of asexual reproduction has reached a point to where we must ask ourselves if it is a good practice for medical purposes, or if it presents issues of ethical and moral concern. ... Human cloning has reached a point where the ethical and moral values have not been considered, and we have not fully learned and understood the negative consequences of such a new and overwhelming technology. ... The Council for Secular Humanism has written the "Declaration in Defense of Cloning and the Integrity of Scie...

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Consequently, theories and diverse categories of therapies arose with the scientific development of medicine taking an upper hand (Gray, 2000, p.1). Treatment has become more dependent on technology and more subjective to particular body parts. However, the germ theory that relates to scientific medicine has faced rebellion since mid-1900's. ... According to Gray (2000, p. 3), this shift in the desire of medicine has seen the change in medicine from pure scientific to that based on empirical observation. ... The essence of miasmatic theory in the treatment of chronic diseases in both scie...

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This debate over the safety of genetically modified food is intense in the scientific world as well as in the public domain of the consumer. ... Alan McHughen states, "A genetically modified organism's genetic material has been intentionally changed through the use of recombinant DNA technology. ... Séralini's study has fallen under the scrutiny of the corporate funded scientific community, since it stands to contradict all the research that was conducted previously (on the corporate dime). ... With the renewed interest from the independent scientific community, there cou...

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From 1910-1940, the Eugenics Record Office at Cold Spring Harbor, which was the center of American eugenics research, was charged with keeping the records and pedigrees that were considered scientific "facts" in their day. ... Finally in 1935, a panel convened by the Carnegie Institution, concluded that the vast majority of work sponsored by the Eugenics Record Office was without scientific merit and recommended a halt to its eugenic social programs; though they persisted until severe pressure from the public and association with the Nazi eugenic program finally put a final stop to it. ... E...

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In today's world, our scientific discoveries have taken us far enough to be able to prevent inherited diseases that people are born with as a result of their gene makeup. ... Genetic engineering is inherently controversial because it involves the scientific manipulation of life on a very basic level. ... This statement clearly leaves out many controversial issues such as cloning and "designer" babies, but as technology grows, maybe so will society and their views. ...

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Although transgenic mice, DNA knockouts, and other advances in the germ-line gene transfer in animals might cause one to think that germline genetic manipulation is just around the corner, several important technical problems need to be resolved before this technology could be considered for human trials. ... (2) Parental autonomy and access to available technologies for purposes of having a healthy child... (3) Germ-line gene modification more efficient and cost-effective than somatic cell gene therapy (4) Freedom of scientific inquiry and intrinsic value of knowledge They a...

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Although the biotechnological food companies claim there are researches on the possible hazards due to the GM ingredients, a report prepared for the Canadian Biotechnology Advisory Committee states that the current scientific tools are not reliable to assess the long-term consequence of such elements on humans' health; then, does not that mean there is no guarantee that these foods are safe and beneficial to humans? ... With the bio-engineering technologies, humans are playing the "dominator" role in the natural world; nonetheless, as scientist and activist Douglas Parr affirms, "gene...

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It's done to protect inventors and companies from being ripped-off by their competitors; they're the ones who put the time and work into developing the technology, so they should be protected from those looking to copy their ideas. ... According to the Daily Explainer, George Dvorsky explained "Recently, the system has been expanded to keep pace with developments in technology, including advances that have been brought about by the biotech revolution. ... There are two different types of genes, those that are natural and some that are artificial, meaning that they have been scie...

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The announcement and ensuing media attention brought the issue of cloning into the public spotlight, sparking a myriad of views and predictions in both the scientific and nonscientific communities. ... This has raised further ethical dilemmas about who will "own- cloning technology and its products. ... Such a body could decide which applications of animal cloning technology are ethically acceptable and viable, and which are not. ...

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