It is currently unknown what effects the body will have upon the introduction of a new gene into it. ... No test can be one hundred percent accurate, but what insurance company would want to insure a client whose genetic makeup indicates the chance of developing debilitating diseases that would require extended medical stays? ... First there are the emotions of one that is likely to develop a disease. ... You are entitled to know this information just as you are entitled to know your blood type, or your cholesterol level. ... Life is what you make out of it. ...

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How do you feel about cloning? Do you believe it is right? ... It is you who has to decide your view on this issue, and try to do something about it. ... Its purpose is simply a way to try to extend human life, which is what medical science has been doing since man's beginning. ... It is now up for you to decide. ...

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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 order to understand why the debate has risen into vast proportions it is best to define what genetic enhancement can offer, in terms of science and healing, and what it should exclude. ... Another important exclusion is what is considered to be "designer" genes. In an effort to prevent discrepancies amongst people of this nation, strict guidelines should be set forth defining what is considered to be a "designer" alteration and what is prevention. If we...

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To make these vector you have to take out the insides of the virus of the genes , than you take the ones that can be harmful and put it to the host of the cell. At the same time , you have to keep the genes that enable the retrovirus to insert DNA into host chromosomes in position. ... For an example if you have a genetic diseases in which a single known gene does not function properly , such as sickle cell anaemia , thalassaemia and Lesch-Nyhan syndrome, are most suitable to be treated with the gene therapy. There are two types of gene therapy in curing these diseases, patient the...

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What is the inner world? ... Sociologist, Barbara Katz Rothman says, "You have cancer because of who you are. ... The environment in this case can be the deciding factor on whether or not you have a disease or not (US News and World Report 127:17). ... Say you have a cancer test done, it shows that you have cancer, now what do you do? ... This is what the family did. ...

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They might use situation ethics, where you must do what the most loving thing is. ... They believe that using treatments like GIFT and IVF are just using Gods" gift of intelligence and it is what he wants. ... The idea of altruism says that you should do what you can to help someone, this seems to make donating organs ok. ... Recently cloning has been used to grow healthy cells to replace/ cure diseased ones. ... By trying to make a perfect world free of disease we are cheating and would be disobeying god. ...

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What is a designer baby you may ask? ... Yes, it is possible to choose exactly what you want your child to look like and what qualities they possess. ... Some animals are used as a dummy for testing diseases and trying to find cures. Mice are injected with genes that cause diseases, so scientists can try to find a cure for the diseases (King, 2007). ... Breast cancer is a disease that can be passed down through generations. ...

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If you alter a baby embryo's genes, they will have a good or bad consequence out of it because we don't know yet what altering a baby embryo's genes can do to a person. ... Thousands of adults may have no idea that they are a carrier for a recessive disease. ... An example of this incident is Hunnington's disease. ... You could also consult a priest so that you can see what his views are about genetic engineering and where he stands on it. ... You can also see what drove them to even go and try to experiment on genetic engineering and you could also try to convince them tha...

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The Mutations of chromosome 15 that can cause disease Chromosomes are found everywhere. ... As you can see above, every chromosome contains many genes. ... A strip of the double helix is one gene, as you can see in the picture. ... The point of the project is for scientists to have a better understanding of how genetics contribute to human disease. ... What would one rather have: Having an abortion after amniocentesis or the child with Down syndrome? ...

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Many of those identified as carriers mistakenly thought they were afflicted with this debilitating disease. ... The knowledge derived from the project will enable physicians to detect an increasing number of diseases and predispositions for diseases. ... Further development could lead to a complete knowledge of who will develop a disease and when. ... The essence of insurance is you assess a risk against the unknown; if there's no medical unknown, the only unknown is whether you're going to get hit by a bus." ... The companies may become extremely hesitant in insuring...

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If the eggs are good, and you get to this step they are probably going to get them to hatch because you have went through the hard part. ... Geneticists for cloning fell that new cloning techniques have made what was once believed impossible now possible. ... Cloning dinosaurs could help to develop new drugs to fight human diseases. ... Reason number 3 we must find what the genetic code of the animal is. ... The last reason is if you get the egg to hatch, you now have to bring it into a world 65 million years after their existence. ...

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What they also failed to mention was that ultimately, drugs could be designed utilizing this data, to attack such diseases. ... One may ask why and what puts the Icelandic genome on the proverbial hot plate? ... Gary Taubes explains, "There are advantages in having this data when studying DNA, along with advances in biotech and computing, you could simply take a few hundred or a thousand victims of disease, analyze their DNA, compare it to the healthy individuals and identify the salient differences." ... Hlodan gives an example, "The arrangement with Hoffman-LaRoche for 12 diseases netted th...

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If you intentionally had your own child suffering for someone else, then what right do you have to call yourself a parent? ... Parents, despite what they may say, love their children exactly the way they are. ... It may give us the ability to cure or prevent previously incurable diseases. ... When it comes to that time, we must realize what it actually is that we are dealing with. ... If you want a tall child, marry tall. ...

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If you look in any standered highschool or collage basic biology book you will see the same basic format. ... You can read about the process of meiosis and meitosis and the structure of a DNA molecule! ... Many of these early scientific discoveries delt with finding causes for and curring diseases! ... He realized a much milder form of the disease found in cows could be introduced to humans allowing them to form antibodies and a resistance to the deadily disease (Edward Jenner 1,2). ... Now what the plant was giving off could be explained by what it was taking in. ...

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What Is Cloning There are three types of cloning that exist, reproductive cloning, DNA cloning, and therapeutic cloning. ... Most commonly you hear of reproductive cloning. ... There will be one day stem cells will be used to replace cells in the treatment of diseases like heart disease, Alzheimer's, and cancer. ... Some think that they may have fewer rights than what normal humans have. ... With so many terminal diseases around it would be great to create a new organ, and replace it. ...

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This means what was once a free and renewable resource is now something that must be purchased every year at a high cost. ... "Of course we're afraid, you can't defend yourself against these people. ... Curing and treating these diseases is almost indefinitely limited by Myriad's greed. Myriad controls the fate of everyone that has one of "their " patented diseases. ... There is little hope we as a species can collaborate and decide what's best for everyone. ...

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Imagine what life would be like if we could eliminate human problems. ... This would allow families to "customize" their children at will, choosing things like their hair color, eye color, even things like allergies or inherited diseases. ... Because what could you possibly love more than a child who in your eyes is perfect, how is having a child that is perfect any different than finding your perfect match, your "soul mate". ... This would undoubtedly be an age of prosperity but there is more to it than just curing diseases. ... This would be one of the truly beautiful things about Genet...

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(LeVay/Hamer 23) Animal studies make available a good deal of evidence for biological basis of disease, but in this case, sexual orientation. ... It's a disease like schizophrenia." ... Clearly family, social norms, friends, teacher or school education can't make you to become gay, which is a minority orientation. ...

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(LeVay/Hamer 23) Animal studies make available a good deal of evidence for biological basis of disease, but in this case, sexual orientation. ... It's a disease like schizophrenia." ... Clearly family, social norms, friends, teacher or school education can't make you to become gay, which is a minority orientation. ...

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The first thing to get cleared up is what is cloning and what is a clone. ... Cloning could help people cope with diseases and make them feel like a whole new person. ... Another possibility is if there was a hidden disease in an organism that was cloned. ... It depends on what kind of person they are. ... Why go through such pain when you can have a cloned baby. ...

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This is what is widely accepted as the "beginning- of cloning, as we know it today. ... This is being researched and developed to one day be used to treat patients with a variety of diseases, such as, Parkinson's Disease, Alzheimer's Disease, stroke, diabetes, epilepsy, and others. ... The majority of the article discusses what really can be called therapeutic cloning; that is- using the genetic material from patients' own cells to produce replacement cells and tissue. ... One issue that posed a major obstacle to them was the question of what was "ethical- and what was not...

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We may be able to grow someone a new liver or heart, new neural tissue to combat degenerative brain diseases like Alzheimer's or Parkinson's, grow new kidneys, or even insulin producing cells to fight diabetes. ... At the moment, if you have a transplant, your body will try to reject the donated cells because it sees them as foreign. ... What is the most concerning idea here is that we are killing either a human being, or a potential human being. ... What about using condoms, should we mourn the loss of millions of potential lives? ... However, what is the alternative? ...

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NF1 was previously known as peripheral neurofibromatosis, or von Recklinghouasen's disease after the doctor who first described it in 1882. ... This disease cannot be "caught" from someone who has it already. . ... NF2 is characterized by tumors that grow on what is referred to as the 8th cranial nerve (one of 12 pairs of nerves that enter or emerge from the brain). ... Linkage analysis requires blood tests on multiple family members, and it tracks the chromosome that harbors the disease-causing gene through two or more generations. ... Because NF1 and NF2 are genetic...

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Chargraff realised that his data showed certain patterns and in the true spirit of science he described these patterns even though he did not know what they meant. ... DNA technology is very useful in solving crimes because you can extract DNA from many different substances. ... DNA can be introduced into plants or animal genomes, producing for example, disease resistant plants, capable of living in inhospitable environments (e.g. temperature and water extremes,"). ... The process is used to study human development and to treat disease. ... This study of stem cells is hoped to one day replace...

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Cloning could result in the existence of individuals who would experience premature disease due to genetic mutation in the donor-cell DNA. The possible biological effects of cloning on the aging process would indirectly cause harm to people by producing a diseased bodily condition that they would have to experience. ... Even if the cloned baby is healthy, what kind of life could it expect to lead, certainly not a normal child-rearing or adult life. ... Kass claims that cloning will lead to an eventual deficiency of our social and cultural institutions, that we will lose a normal understandin...

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