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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This alarmed the Scotland public because of its scientific implications. ... When you think about it, killing a scientifically developed embryo that is only a few living cells, is not equivalent to killing a person. ... Though not feasible at current levels of technology and scientific understanding, this and similar concepts have been explored in various forms of fiction. ... 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. ...

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These new technologies allow for the extraction and purification of minute amounts of fossilized DNA, which is then amplified, activated and replicated before being used for in vitro fertilization. ... This research may lead to a major scientific discovery that builds on the technologies already benefiting many humans" worldwide, especially infertile couples who want to have children. ... Now is the time for scientists and society to acknowledge that it is unjustifiable to use new techniques and scientific advances to solve today's problems but wrong to add new problems. Dinosaur cloning ...

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For example, genetic technology can and has been used to determine the capacity of a person to contract certain diseases, such as sickle-cell anemia, which could cause many employers to hesitate in the hiring and training of such people. ... The complexity of scientific evidence, especially DNA profiling, has also caused many problems within the legal profession. ... People need to familiarize themselves with today's scientific research rather than relying on the credentials of a scientific expert witness. ... Lawyers need to increase their scientific knowledge and keep up with ...

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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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There are many explanations, mythical, scientific and religious, but nobody can know exactly where we came from for a few reasons. One is that our fossil record is sparse, and modern-day technology cannot compensate for this. ... Aboard the Beagle, Darwin realized that some of his own observations of fossils and living plants and animals cast doubt on some accepted scientific theories. ... New fossils are slowly being discovered, and technology to discover more about our evolutionary history through the animals of today is developing. ...

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Throughout the years scientific studies have come by multiple breakthroughs. ... "The forensic team includes someone from just about every scientific area, from chemists to biologists to medical technologists." ... In today's increasing technology, analyzing clues requires high-tech instruments. ... Forensics has only just begun, but modern technology, computers and gadgets that are soon to be discovered, may replace certain scientists. ...

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There's a newly developed technology that can allow doctors and scientists to duplicate living organisms. This development in technology is known as cloning, and it has forever changed the views of life. ... This new scientific techniques can be used to improve the quality of life and bring balance to the ecosystem. ... Cloning is a very beneficial technique to improve the quality of life, why not use the scientific breakthrough to the best of the world's abilities. ...

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The scientific technology of cloning is the artificial production of organisms with the same genetic information. The technology behind cloning is called nuclear transfer. ... Scientists are currently using this technology and with many species. ...

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Recombinant DNA technology is important for learning about other related technologies, such as gene therapy, genetic engineering of organisms, and sequencing genomes. ... Therapeutic cloning technology may some day be used in humans to produce whole organs from single cells or to produce healthy cells that can replace damaged cells in degenerative diseases such as Alzheimer's or Parkinson's. ... Also it taught me how scientific practices differed as the different scientists visited the island. ...

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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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Farmers are obligated to sign a Monsanto technology agreement with the company that prohibits farms from sharing (accidentally or not) seeds with their neighbors (Monsanto Company, 2012). ... It could be said that without these scientific advances we would be much worse off as a population. The scientific research is so limited to corporations whose motivation is to make large profits for shareholders. ...

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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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This may not sound like very much but as technology increases the rate at finding them will increase. ... Still the ongoing research being done today never ceases to amaze the scientific community or the general public. ...

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Then, "the prosecution signed a letter saying they would agree to Bloodsworth's release if a laboratory ever determines with scientific certainty that any sperm found did not belong to Bloodsworth and that the prosecution confirmed the results independently" (Evans 64). ... Furthermore, many scientists are using this technology for other uses. ... "It is not the technology that is being challenged, but the proficiency of the tester" (Thompson 63). ...

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Environment, Technology, and Society Imagine this; "talking to yourself" could take on a whole new meaning if exact human cloning is made possible. ... (Teoh) Other scientific benefits are the possibility to create people with identical genetic makeup so they can act as organ donors others. ... Using this type of technology to help people is no different than having a test tube baby in my eyes, so why should it not be allowed? ... If the technology were to get into the wrong hands this could be a real threat to society. ...

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Although this new medical technology provides us the opportunity to do some amazing things and save countless numbers of people whom never before could be saved. ... The majority or people think that to kill a human for purely scientific purposes is wrong. However, we have no problem killing a mouse, sharing on average 85% of our DNA, or an ape, sharing 95-98% of our DNA for scientific purposes. ... Although with something of this magnitude, the concerns of the poor versus the rich is not really enough reason to stand in the way of such scientific progress. ...

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In 1996, Justice John Paul Stevens of the US Supreme Court states, "Recent development of reliable scientific evidentiary methods has made it possible to establish conclusively that a disturbing number of persons who had been sentenced to death were actually innocent (pg 187)." ... The technology, solving and linking these crimes, gets faster and cheaper every year. The failure to take full advantage of this and other technology is a national scandal. ...

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For nearly a century, cloning has been the subject of popular fiction even though the technology was lacking in reality. ... However, the traits a culture values and finds favorable are not fixed; these traits change with the nature of the economy and technology as well as fashion. ... With the rise of industrialism and later high technology, brainpower became more valuable. ... Indeed, a division in humanity between the natural (i.e., sexually borne) and the unnatural (i.e., scientifically borne) is a great concern. ...

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Biotechnology is any technique that uses organisms or their products to make a new product, to improve the life of humans or to develop microorganisms for specific scientific uses (Cooley, 2014). ... According to Gargesi (2013) green biotechnology uses modern technology to explore plants like organisms. ... As biotech processes replace old rust-belt technologies, they are enabling a transformation from a petroleum-based economy to a bio-based economy....

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For years, clones have been the subject of popular fiction, but the technology was lacking. ... They change with the nature of the economy and technology, as well as with fashion. ... With the rise of industrialism and later high technology, brainpower became more valuable. ...

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