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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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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Using this technology makes it easy for scientists to compare different DNA, and also help create three dimensional models. ... One day when this technology becomes more advance this joining of technology and of life sciences will help us understand the human genome better. ... With the development of new data types, we need to develop new data technologies. ... Development of new technologies using Index The University of Glasgow is developing a new technology using indexes for searching extremely huge biological databases. ... The amount of data needed to be processed will be reduced ...

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Indeed, we have come a long way since the influential discovery made by James Watson and Sir Francis Crick, but even their wildest imaginations could not comprehend the effects of the insight that they shared with the scientific world that day. ... At the request of his father superior, Abbot Napp, Mendel tried his hand at some scientific experiments involving heredity. ... Despite the impressive discoveries of Mendel, his work would go ignored by the scientific community for another 35 years (DNA Watson). ...

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It has been scientifically proven that if relatives were to come together to procreate the chances of the child becoming mentally handicapped or possessing serious abnormalities is much greater then if two non related people where to produce offspring. ...

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