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Treating Disease With Stem Cells
1,019 wordsThis article was written by Dr. Gregory Hale, professor of Pediatrics at the University of Kentucky College of Medicine, in response to questions posed by Scientific American Magazine regarding the treatment of certain diseases with cord blood stem cells. There is some additional information provided by Viacord, a medical service company that provides private family cord blood banking, processing, and research. Dr. Hale discussed the advantages of cord blood stem cell transplants, the results of...
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Civil Action Drinking Water
1,272 wordsIn 1979, two wells supplying the drinking water for the small New England town of East Worburn, in Massachusetts, were found to be dumping industrial solvents. At this same time in Massachusetts, there were other investigations of industrial dumping. The residents of Worburn had long been concerned about their foul-tasting drinking water and the unexplained high incidence of leukemia deaths of the young children in their community. Anne Anderson, a mother whose son Jimmy died of leukemia in 1981...
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White Blood Cells Bone Marrow
1,670 wordsImagine if you can a time and place where in one split second life as you know it is changed forever. The date is August 6, 1945, and you are living in Hiroshima. Around 8: 16 a. m. , without a single warning, an A-bomb explodes 580 meters above the city that you are living in and four different types of radiation have just been released into the air. The first two, alpha and beta ray radiation, will be blocked by the atmosphere and thus wont reach you on the earths surface. The other two, gamma...
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Human Cloning March 2000
998 words... ff. How could the rest of us genetically challenged people hope to even land a job? Suppose you graduate with a degree in mathematics, hoping to fulfill your dream of becoming a teacher, only to learn that the schools and colleges are staffed with Einstein clones that possess knowledge far superior to yours. Their knowledge would be born from an implanted genetic inclination whereas yours would come only from hard work. You need not be an Einstein, or an Einstein clone, to identify the loser...
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The Human Genome Project
727 wordsA genome is all the DNA in an organism, including its genes. Genes carry information for making all the proteins required by all organisms. These proteins determine, among other things, how the organism looks, acts, processes and fights infections. DNA is made up of four similar chemicals (bases, adenine , Thymine
, cytosine , and guanine ) that are repeated millions or billions of times throughout a genome. The human genome has three billion base pairs. The order of these base pairs...
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Adult Stem Cells Stem Cell Research
1,351 wordsStem Cells: Could this be the technology to cure cancer? By: Ali Right Stem cells could be the greatest medical advance in history in the sense that most of our serious diseases can be cured. Stem cells have the potential to morph into other cell types in the body. Serving as a sort of repair system for the body, they can theoretically divide without limit to replenish other cells as long as the person is living. During mitosis, each new cell has the potential to either remain a stem cell or bec...
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Nausea And Vomiting Types Of Cancer
1,466 words... s not practiced due to the possibility of making it active. Removal of complete malignant tumors is often successful in halting cancer growth in that particular region, when followed by radiation therapy. It is also possible to remove parts of tumors, to reduce the amount of cancerous tissue in the body as a whole. The one major drawback to surgery is that quite often a tumor is not accessible to a surgeon, or it may be attached to a major organ of the body, in which removing the tumor may c...
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Embryonic Stem Cells Stem Cell Research
1,241 words... o study if something is to be found. Many things can come out of this besides cures for disease and the reproduction of new organs for those in need of a transplant. Every person has a right to choose so let them if you are faced with a disease and need a transplant and the Doctor tells you he could get you a new organ but it was created from stem cells or you could wait on a list for a donor which would you choose? On November 27, 2004 Swiss voters backed the 2003 proposal of stem cell rese...
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Yale University York City
485 wordsGifford Pinchot was one of America's leading advocates of environmental conservation at the turn of the twentieth century. Born into wealth and endowed with imagination and a love of nature, he shared his money, possessions and intellect to further the causes of the common good. It was at Grey Grey Towers that James Pinchot first encouraged his son to explore the profession of forestry. But such training did not yet exist in the United States, so, after graduating from Yale University in 1889, G...
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Human Cloning Foundation Organ Transplants
2,285 wordsDebate of human cloning In the past several decades, human cloning has turned from a laboratory dream to worldwide disputes. There are enough opinions supporting both bad and good consequences of human cloning. Human cloning sets a number of difficult questions about human independence, self-esteem, and individuality. Will human cloning be a huge step for man, or will it result in moral demise? This is the never-ending question. With large investigation, one would realize that with the introduct...
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Fetal Alcohol Syndrome Amount Of Alcohol
874 wordsHow does alcohol affect the unborn baby? What kinds of effects may result in the child and it will it affect it for the rest of his or her life? Whenever you take a drink, the alcohol readily crosses the placenta and enters the babies bloodstream. However the babies tiny developing system is not equipped to handle alcohol and is effected much more severely than is the mother. Every time you take a drink the unborn baby takes a drink as well. Nobody really knows how much alcohol it takes to harm ...
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American Cancer Society Types Of Cancer
1,528 wordsRight now, cancer Cancer Cancer Right now, cancer is one of the most feared diseases in the world. In the early 1990 s almost 6 million new cancer cases developed and more than 4 million deaths from cancers occurred. Also more than one-fifth of all deaths were caused by cancer and it has been predicted, by the American Cancer Society, that about 33 % of Americans will eventually develop this disease. This is a huge disease that is killing people all over the world. The field of cancer study is c...
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Human Cloning Technology Cystic Fibrosis
2,003 wordsThe benefits of human cloning There are many ways in which in which human cloning is expected to benefit mankind. Below is a list of ways that it is expected to help people. This list is far from complete. Human cloning technology could be used to reverse heart attacks. Scientists believe that they may be able to treat heart attack victims by cloning their healthy heart cells and injecting them into the areas of the heart that have been damaged. Heart disease is the number one killer in the Unit...
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York Houghton Today
862 words&# 65279; Technology: A Tool For Education More and more each day technology infiltrates deeper into our daily lives and routines. In fact, it has become such an integral part of society, that mass hysteria and panic would undoubtedly ensue should it suddenly be taken away. To allow technology to take control would surely lead to a disintegration of society. Today, most classrooms are connected to the Internet or at the very least contain computers to help educate the nation? s children. Technol...
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Syndrome Down Syndrome Risk Is 1 Age
390 wordsDown Down Syndrome Down Syndrome Down Syndrome is caused by a trisomy of the 21 st chromosome, which means that there are three of chromosome 21 instead of 2. Symptoms of the disorder include: mental retardation, abnormal creases in the palm, a flat face, sparse and strait hair and short stature. People with Down syndrome are also at a high risk for cardiac anomalies, leukemia, cataracts and digestive blockage. Fifty percent of babies with the syndrome die before age one. Down syndrome can be de...
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Risk Of Contracting Magnetic Fields
399 wordsHomes are filled with electric magnetic fields (EMFs), EMFs are created every time anything electrical is used. Hair dryers, alarm clocks, micro waves and radios are just a few examples. All these appliances cause leukemia, a form of cancer. High EMF fields are not very unusual. EMFs can pass through walls, so one can also be exposed to them from power lines and transformers. Using a hair dryer for 3 minutes would give the same exposure that one would get living next to a high voltage power line...
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Circle Of Life Genetic Engineering
1,570 wordsGenetic engineering, the transfer of genetic material from one organism to another, is often a hot topic of debate among scientists and the general public alike; yet, what is the controversy behind this ground breaking medical procedure? Although the procedure, in its numerous forms, could greatly benefit society in many ways, the ethics of the whole idea have many concerned. Types of Genetic Engineering There are several types of genetic engineering and they all vary slightly in the technique a...
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Human Cloning Technology Muscular Dystrophy
1,313 wordsThe benefits of human cloning There are many ways in which in which human cloning is expected to benefit mankind. Below is a list that is far from complete. Rejuvenation. Dr. Richard Seed, one of the leading proponents of human cloning technology, suggests that it may someday be possible to reverse the aging process because of what we learn from cloning. Human cloning technology could be used to reverse heart attacks. Scientists believe that they may be able to treat heart attack victims by clon...
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Bone Marrow Dna Cloning
985 wordsThe theory of adult DNA cloning is astoundingly simple: one takes the nucleus of a cell from an adult, which contains the adult s genes (DNA), and transfers it into an egg in place of that egg s own nucleus. The egg, placed in a surrogate womb can now develop into a baby that will grow to an exact copy of the adult. In reality the practice of cloning is more complicated. The only animal to have been produced this way is the now world famous Dolly. Dr. Ian Wilmut of the Roslin Institute in Roslin...
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Types Of Cancer Nausea Vomiting
957 wordsDuring a shower one-day, you notice a lump that was not otherwise there. The next day you see a doctor. The lump you have identified is diagnosed as cancer. Now you need to figure out what to do. There is no absolute cure for cancer, but there are different ways to treat it. Doctors use according methods like radiation, chemotherapy or drugs to treat various types of cancer. Another way of treating cancer is with alternative forms of medicine by using acupuncture and natural herbal remedies. The...
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