Genetic testing is one of these new advancements. Genetic testing includes several different methods such as the genetic screening of newborns, prenatal testing, and designer babies. ... First, it is necessary to understand the basic concept of genetic testing. ... There are other similar technological advances of genetic testing, such as prenatal testing, that involves the screening of unborn babies. ... Knowing at an early age of a disease may seem to be useful; however, the stress associated with the knowledge of being inflicted with an incurable illness may be too much to handle. ...

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Some influential companies that test their products on animals include: Covergirl, Maybelline New York, Revlon, Tide, Clorox, Clean Clear, and Lysol (Companies that Still Test on Animals). ... In the United States, animal testing is regulated by the Animal Welfare Act (AWA). ... Animals are taken out of their natural habitats, and are placed in cages inside a laboratory, where they experience feelings of depression, anxiety, and stress. ... In vitro tests have been proven to be more effective than animal testing when detecting chemicals that irritate skin. For instance, in vitro test were 100...

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It has been found that animal testing was unnecessary when pressure was applied to cosmetics-industry and product-safety testing 10 years ago (Horvitz 40). ... For example, stress levels, diet, the surrounding environment, even the size of cage for which the animal is studied. ... The EPA still conducts the Lethal Dose 50 (LD50) test - recording how much chemical kills 50% of the animals in a test group - even though a majority of scientists agree that the test is a lousy predictor of human risk. ... LD 50 is by far the most useless type of animal testing performed. The purpose of this te...

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The industry has always been quick to exploit the less than conclusive results of animal tests, especially in fields such as onconlogy. ... All of the chemicals mentioned above had been tested on different animals prior to their use on the soldiers. Nevertheless, the animal tests were evidently not able to prevent the Gulf War veterans and their children from becoming the real guinea pigs. ... Moreover, animal tests have a dubious record in predicting useful drugs to combat the effects of a stroke. ... Researchers at the University of Gottingen stress the importance of human tissue since "ther...

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The main stem cells subject to testing are stem cells extracted from left over embryos during in-vitro fertilization. ... While researchers are hopeful and believe their findings to be promising, doctors are quick to point out that it could be years before research actually advances to human testing, and stress the fact that all research is "potential-. ...

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The stress on the importance of friends and family creates a gentleman and sage with strong emotional ties to the ones around him. ... A ruling class that allows the group which they are presiding over to stand the test of time are better than a ruling class that allows its subjects and their society to collapse. ...

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The modern zeitgeist is obsessed with technical efficiency, testing, and specialization. ... The sleep deprived student and office worker returns home with stress levels soaring and thus utilizes his leisure time to relieve himself of his unbearable present, so that he may continue to bear it the following day. ...

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The modern zeitgeist is obsessed with technical efficiency, testing, and specialization. ... The sleep deprived student and office worker returns home with stress levels soaring and thus utilizes his leisure time to relieve himself of his unbearable present, so that he may continue to bear it the following day. ...

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Third, refinement stresses upon the researchers to design studies carefully in order to achieve maximum scientific benefit and inflict lowest possible harm to the animals (Kilkenny et al., 2009). ... In the name of research of behavioral sciences, human participants have been subjected to electric shocks, they failed in easy test or embarrassed somehow. ...

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Appleyard highlights what one of the great quantum theoreticians, Niels Bohr, stressed: "It is wrong to think that the task of physics is to find out how nature is. ... The western religions do not really want to claim God is a "fact" to be verified for as Barbour observes "to make God a hypothesis to be tested or a conclusion of an argument is to lose the experiential basis of religion" (1974:125). ...

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