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Prenatal Diagnosis Downs Syndrome
1,638 words... s the couples both of which are carriers before they get married. Carrier screening may result with genetic discrimination against carriers. People who have been diagnosed as carriers may find it difficult to find partners for marriage, may be discriminated against by employers or insurance companies. For example, carriers of sickle cell anemia who were identified as a result of a compulsory population-screening programme during 1970 s, were discriminated against in several American states. ...
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Children With Down Syndrome One Of The Most Common
598 wordsSometimes when meiosis (the division of reproductive cells) occurs, chromosomes may be lost, left behind, or too many may be passed on, resulting in the birth of a child with a genetic or congenital defect or disease. One of the most common of these genetic disorders is Down syndrome. This disorder takes its name from Dr. Langdon Down, who was the first to describe it formally, in 1866. Down syndrome is a condition marked by abnormal physical and mental development that is caused by a genetic de...
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Bioethics Advisory Commission National Bioethics Advisory
2,488 wordsCloning The cloning of an adult sheep and the possibility that human cloning could soon follow has raised some serious ethical questions. Some people object on a purely ethical level while others favor cloning solely for the scientific advances it will produce. In the debate over cloning, there are those who say that the scientific benefits and advances gained from cloning are beneficial to society. On the other hand there are those who feel that cloning is morally wrong and would produce both s...
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Genetic Defect Embryo Cells
2,002 wordsDocumented Paper As humanity progresses, more and more technologies are becoming available. However, while some of the technologies are deployed without any ethical considerations, there are some technologies that involve ethical dilemmas as well as high extent of public awareness. New reproductive technologies, such as cloning, are the technologies that arise a wide array of legal and ethical controversies. Although there are a lot of potential benefits associated with cloning, I believe that i...
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Bioethics Advisory Commission National Bioethics Advisory
2,468 wordsCloning As humanity progresses, more and more technologies are becoming available. However, while some of the technologies are deployed without any ethical considerations, there are some technologies that involve ethical dilemmas as well as high extent of public awareness. New reproductive technologies, such as cloning, are the technologies that arise a wide array of legal and ethical controversies. As the mentioned above technology have drawn the most public attention, within the course of this...
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People With Cf People In The United States
357 wordsCystic fibrosis is the most frequent lethal, genetic disease of childhood. Commonly called CF, this disease is caused by an inherited genetic defect. About one in 23 people in the United States carry atleast one defective gene, which makes it the most common genetic defect of it s severity in the United States. It is not a contagious disease and there is no risk of catching it. Of children born with CF, 95 % appear to be normal and healthy at birth. The disease is then signaled by a failure to g...
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Genetic Tests Syndrome
3,282 wordsProbably, applied genetics? most impacts on society are as a result of genetic tests. In general, genetic tests seek to detect some feature of a person? s genetic constitution. This feature can be a disease causing mutation or a marker DNA sequence used to detect presence of another gene. Obviously these procedures used for testing the status of DNA, RNA or chromosomes are included in genetic tests. What is more it is possible to include some protein based tests and classical medical examination...
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