How many of you know what a GMO is? ... These organisms would have never developed on their own; they are not part of our revolutionary process they shouldn't exist; yet we are eating them. ... It attacks the gut cells causing the insect to bloat up and die. ... What is happening is when we eat our food it escapes out of our intestines through these tiny holes and it goes directly into our blood stream. ... They are in the water we drink, the air we breathe and the food we eat. ...

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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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I will discuss the background information about cloning, why we should clone, why we should not clone, and then my thoughts on the subject at hand. ... Of these 29, all but Dolly died before birth. ... Madeleine Nash talked about how the clone of an adult ewe is "born" with the assistance of nuclear transplantation. ... Also, people are always afraid of new technology at first, until they realize how much they can benefit from it. ... While attempting to clone Dolly, numerous sheep died before they were even born, while others were born with life threatening illnesses, problems, and d...

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Although this statement ignores information about the positive aspects of cloning and how we can misuse cloning or what consequences occur when the procedure is unsuccessful. ... With this technology we could grow an unlimited supply of organs, which means no one would have to die from not having an exact match for organ transplant. ... Richard Seed, a Graves 4 physicist, who graduated from Harvard University with three degrees, hopes that cloning will help us understand how to reverse DNA back to age 20 or whatever age we want to be. ... They die in the womb, or soon after birth. ... I...

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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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Another way the GMO's are affecting our environment is by affecting animals, especially the ones that we eat. ... That corn aside from being eaten by humans, are also fed to the animals that we eat, such as cows and chicken. So now we are not only getting GMO's from the fruits and vegetables we eat, but from the meat and milk that we consume as well. ... The result of the study concluded to be that the rats that were fed everyday with GMO's died faster than those that were not. ... This test shows how dangerous GMO's truly are and can explain the rise in new illnesses and i...

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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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With cloning we can put bulky plastic prosthetics in the past and welcome living prosthetics made from the patients own tissue. ... If scientists were to continue studies of cloning, someday, we would be able to prevent a species from dying out. ... There is a need for more hearts and kidneys, presently, people will die before human hearts can be made available. If we can clone animals we"ll see more animal-organs-to-human transplants therefore saving lives in the hospital. ... But how can one person be content with themselves knowing by disapproving of cloning is literally costing li...

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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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Yet why is it that, after all this time spent and research conducted, we aren't utilizing the full medical potential of science? Because many people are against, or scared of, any type of "futuristic" science no matter how beneficial it may be. ... Imagine if instead of watching a loved one suffer and die from AIDS, cancer or any one of a massive number of diseases, we could find the cause of these ailments and test possible cures. ... All the while, that potentially life saving research is being held off as we debate on just how far science should be allowed to go. ... So how can sc...

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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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Armed with a deep understanding of how DNA works, Venter is now moving on to an even more extraordinary project. ... Article 3: "Penicillin, a First-Generation Biotechnology" Quote "We are in England in 1927. ... Article 4: "Keith Campbell, Cloner of Sheep, Dies at 58" Quote The article explains how Dr. ... This article make me wonder; what are the future uses for cloning and how can it be beneficial? ... He died at age 58 in 2012....

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Of course, its Gods decisions if we live, die, or are cured with an illness, and human cloning will be defacing that. But we are already playing God when we fly airplanes, do transplants, create nuclear energy, fly into space, use advanced technology, take medicine or even tell the weather. ... So we are not supposed to know when storms are coming, know how to create cures or know how the world works. If God wanted us to fly we would have wings. ... So why should we add human cloning to the list of abominations? ...

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The Tech, Museum of Innovation illustrates how many diseases are passed on from our older generations. ... Sadly, since gene therapy's long-term effects were not well known, 3 of the boys' developed leukemia and one died. ... Genetic modification can be used to alter our genes once we are older or simply when we get a disease. ... In the article Scientific American explains how scientists should be allowed to research with basic human germline. ... As a society, we must look ahead. ...

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By devouring genetically modified foods we are taking risks because in actuality we do not know what we are eating. ... Next Wilson writes about how if we do not slow the process of genetic engineering down now then humans will become a part of the lab experiment: resulting in vegetable conquering us. ... We unknowingly consume these products every day: not knowing how they truly affect our digestive track. ... The rats developed stomach lesions causing them to die two weeks later: since this test the FlavrSavr tomato has been terminated. ... Like in Food Fight how Wilson wrote that the food...

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