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Ultraviolet Radiation Nucleic Acid
1,499 words... these processes has the potential to damage the genetic material, and thus the cell. This in turn could cause cells to function poorly, causing premature aging associated with Werner syndrome. If the DNA damage happened to inactivate tumor suppressor genes or active oncogenes, it might also cause cells to grow out of control and produce cancerous tumors. In fact, there is already evidence that a faulty helicase can cause cancers. Recently a team led by geneticist James German of the New York...
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Prion Diseases Sickle Cell
1,117 words... were 3 months old, their brains had degenerated and contained spongy tissue. Although the brain matter had been damaged, the neurons had yet to be affected and the mice presented no symptoms. Days after the enzyme production, the PrP gene stopped producing PrP and the remaining quantities of PrP were quickly broken down by protease. With no new protein for the infectious form to convert, the disease progression stopped and slowly reversed. The holes within the brain healed and the mice retur...
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Does Hiv Cause Aids The Controversy
1,765 words"Science is nothing but perception" -- -Plato -- - In the first part of my discussion on the HIV/AIDS controversy, I discussed some of the reasons some people were unwilling to believe that HIV causes AIDS. I did not focus on the scientific community nor did I explain how the science handles data that conflicts with accepted scientific theory. This essay will explore these themes. It will concentrate on the scientific establishment and how it formulates its theories and the HIV/AIDS controversy ...
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Does Hiv Cause Aids The Controversy
1,631 words... his that HIV is a passenger virus provides a consistent explanation for the unpredictable time interval between HIV infection and AIDS. " (Duesberg and Bialy, p. 5) In conclusion, the article claims that the report was selective. They point out variety of issues which questions the validity the paper. (The article is included with this essay and is worth a read. ) At the end of the article Duesberg and Bialy state with respect to the report, "It seems to us that the 'new developments' of Wei...
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Living Organisms Magnetic Field
910 wordsCould icy moons of giant planets, such as Europa and Callisto, provide possible habitable environments for living organisms? Until such task is actually accomplished, scientists and researchers all over our world will forever be trying to find life in other parts of both our galaxy, and the Universe. Such fascination with extraterrestrial life has been brought to somewhat of a peak with the recent findings on two of Jupiter's so-called Galilean Satellites: Europa and Callisto. The findings from ...
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Syndrome Patients Ultraviolet Radiation
3,014 wordsNowadays those Werner Syndrome Abstract: Nowadays those involved in aging research view aging in terms of a genetic disease rather than as a natural, evolution-driven process by which the old make way for the young. A condition of aged friends and relatives seems terrible to conceive; they are afflicted with a ghastly wasting disease, a plague whose effects are inescapable because of our own genes. People plagued with Werner syndrome do not even have the opportunity to experience this natural pr...
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