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Full Blown Aids Human Immunodeficiency Virus
1,579 wordsHIV and AIDS The first case of AIDS was identified in New York in 1979. The cause of the disease, a retro virus now called Human Immunodeficiency Virus, was identified in 1983 - 84 by scientists working at the National Cancer Institute in the United States and the Pasteur Institute in France. These workers also developed tests for AIDS, enabling researchers to follow the transmission of the virus and to study the origin and mechanism of the disease. Close relatives of the AIDS virus infect some ...
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D S Six Months
1,433 wordsThe Worse Epidemic Ever To Hit America: AIDS Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome, the number one killer among Sexually Transmitted Diseases in North America, all because of the lack of intelligence about the disease. There are a lot of ways to contract the virus HIV, homosexuality is not the only way, but, Im sure thats the first thing that comes to mind when someone mentions A. I. D. S. The reason people are so unaware of the virus or just dont care about it is because people have the thought w...
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Nerve Impulses Emotional Pain
1,397 wordsEvery human being throughout history has felt pain sometime in his life. The moment a newborn leaves the womb, he is exposed to his first experiences of light and sound; which is painful compared to the cozy embryonic sac they have become accustomed to. Everyone in the world has felt disappointed or let down, which can also be painful. There are two major types of pain in the world; physical pain and emotional pain, which can be somewhat related at times, and independent of each other at other t...
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Tay Sachs Disease White Blood Cells
2,021 words... would fatally digest itself away. Some of these enzymes break down proteins, others attack fats, and still others disassemble the nucleic acids that make up DNA and RNA (Bourne, 1992, p. 123). Lynosomes don't always work right. When they fail, the result can be catastrophic disease. In Tay-Sachs disease, for example, victims have inherited a faulty gene, which leads to a defective enzyme or no enzyme at all. As a result certain undigested molecules accumulate in the lysosomes, gradually lead...
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