of scientific research" Do you think saving 17 million people is a good idea. Well gene therapy could potentially be the answer. In gene therapy the defective gene is replaced with a new healthy gene. The idea of gene therapy sounds so simple to most people all you need to do is just replace the gene and all is good, but the therapy is just in experimental stages for most genetic diseases. The pros of gene therapy is obviously that it could save million but could also be really quite dangerous if
They believe cloning is more beneficial than detrimental. They believe this because cloning can help find out about many genes that cause diseases. Cloning is also used for gene therapy. Gene therapy is where cloning is used to cure disease. Lastly, people believe the power of cloning is unbelievable. The power of cloning opens up the possibility of cloning stem cells from a patient’s body. These cells could
biological medium . The World Wildlife Fund (WWF) published a report in 2009 stating that greenhouse gases were potentially reduced due to biotechnology . Similar to healthcare and agricultural biotechnology, industrial biotechnology does have some disadvantages. Since industrial biotech is still new, the benefits are not completely understood by companies and
These chemicals and manipulations may cause an increase in obesity due to the surplus food supply available to citizens. Genetic manipulated foods will cause great health damages in today’s society and even poorer health in future societies. The disadvantages of these technologies is not terminated with the obvious health destruction due to chemically changed food stuffs. There is also the worry of the government using surveillance technologies in order to watch our citizens. The use of this power will
Taxol is an anticancer drug produced by extraction from the bark of the pacific yew tree called Taxus brevifolia, which was discovered by Harvard trained botanist called Arthur Barclay in 1962 (wall and wani, 1995). It was renamed to paclitaxel when it was commercially developed. It is in a form of whitish crystalline powder with a melting point of 216 ºC, very insoluble in water, highly lipophilic, higher protein binding rate and disturbs the structure of the inner part of the cell membrane (Goldspiel
The most important muscle in the human body is the heart. Normally the heart is a size of a fist. The main characteristic of the heart is pumping blood around the body. However, there are many diseases that can affect the heart such as cardiomyopathy. Cardiomyopathy has many types. The most widespread type is ischemic cardiomyopathy. This essay will explain the definition of ischemic cardiomyopathy, how it is developed, and the causes of ischemic cardiomyopathy. Cardiomyopathy is a serious disease
complete genome of M. tuberculosis (H37Rv used as reference strain) documented in 1998 (Cole ST et al.,1998). This revealed a circular genome in the region of 4,411,529 base pairs long, contains 3,924 open reading frames and containing approximately 4000 genes. The genome of M. tuberculosis has a very high GC content (65.6%) (Naya et al. 2002). There are a number of repetitive DNA sequences in the M. tuberculosis genome including insertion sequences (IS), the direct repeat (DR) region, the major polymorphic
CHAPTER TWO LITERATURE REVIEW 2.1 BIODIESEL AND ITS PROPERTIES Carini and Hogan’s study (as cited in Patton, 2002) OR “… origins of neuralgia” (Carini and Hogan, as cited in Patton, 2002, p. 2154) Biodiesel is a renewable, reduces the emission of some pollutants (Dinkov et al., 2008), and environmentally friendly alternative to mineral diesel fuel (Lam et al., as cited in Dinkov et al., 2008). Biodiesel is also non-flammable, non-explosive, biodegradable and nontoxic compared to mineral diesel. As