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Genetic Diseases Essays and Term Papers
Cloningis something that has been dreamt about for a long time, but now that it is becoming a reality, people should start to think seriously about it and realize that it is not right to mess with God's creations; to create a technology that we cannot control and that poses an eminent threat to society. ...
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Alcoholism"What is ?" itself is a chronic illness that is characterized by the habitual consumption of alcohol to a degree that interferes with physical, mental and social health. Alcohol is a depressant that will release feelings of guilt, anxiety and remorse if taken in heavy quantities. It will impair ...
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Cancer 4Right now, cancer is one of the most feared diseases in the world. In the early 1990s 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 ...
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AIDS Is A KillerAs we all know . AIDS is short for Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome. AIDS can be contracted either through sexual intercourse, by blood transfusion, or an exchange of bodily fluids from an infected person to a non-infected person. What many people do not quite understand is that AIDS' main ...
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Compare And Contrast Depression And SchizophreniaMany people take the ability of a young child to recognize faces for granted. However, these people do not realize that the molding of personality begins in infancy. People learn to recognize others by their personalities. Unfortunately, personality disorders are not uncommon. Today, we will ...
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Klinefelter Syndromeis a syndrome in which a person has an additional X-
chromosome. It is not life consuming, but rather people who have this syndrome can live perfectly normal lives proper treatment and care. If precautions are taken early on. Dr. Harry Klinefelter and his co-workers at Massachusetts center ...
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Hantavirus: A Four Corners Study
When a new virus appeared in the Four Corners region, American scientists were stumped. What was causing such a quick death to such healthy people? Was there a potential epidemic on their hands? No one knew, and when they finally determined that a strain was involved, ...
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Canine Hip DysplasiaIn today's society, you can not pick up a newspaper without seeing numerous articles regarding medical advancements. Advancements in Cancer, AIDS, and many other diseases are happening every day. However, you only tend to hear about advancements pertaining to human medicine, what about all of our ...
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CancerRight now, is one of the most feared diseases in the world. In
the early 1990s almost 6 million new cases developed and more than 4
million deaths from s occurred. Also more than one-fifth of all deaths
were caused by and it has been predicted, by the American Society,
that about 33% of ...
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Nuclear PowerThere are more than four hundred nuclear power plants around the world, with more than one hundred in the United States. Nuclear power is the controlled use of nuclear reactions to create energy for propulsion, heat, and the generation of electricity. Today’s use of nuclear power is done by nuclear ...
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Frankenstein vs CloningWhen the epic novel "Frankenstein" came out in 1831 the world's eyes were opened to idea of man creating another man, with science instead of through the use of reproduction. The story demonstrated the horrible fact that creating humans through scientific methods didn't fall into the natural ...
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Stem CellsStem Cells
Stem cell research has caused controversy for many years. Stem cells are in all living organisms. They differentiate in many types of cell, including blood cells, nerves, cardiac muscle, and pancreatic islet cells. Stem cells are used to treat disastrous conditions like Alzheimer's ...
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AIDS And Its HistoryProfessor Luc Montagnier, who discovered the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) in 1983, and Professor Peter Duesberg, who first mapped the genetic structure of such viruses, are to challenge the orthodox view that HIV is the exclusive cause of AIDS at an "alternative" AIDS conference in Amsterdam ...
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Drinking Water ContaminationDue to the Safe Drinking Water Act (SDWA), America's drinking water is safer than it has been in decades, and of better quality than that of many other countries. Accordingly, many Americans believe that while people elsewhere may have reason to be concerned about getting sick from contaminated ...
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EbolaMarch 1, 1996
Imagine going on vacation to a foreign country and when you come home you
are horribly sick. Your head hurts, you have a highfever, and you start
vomiting. Chances are that you may havecontracted the Ebola virus.
Ebola was first discovered in the village of Yambuku(1) nearthe ...
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The Promises Of DNA VaccinesDNA Vaccines
One of the most important health advances of the 20th Century has been immunization, and except for safe drinking water, vaccinology has more effectively reduced mortality than any other modality and reducing many infectious diseases to rare occurrences (Simmerman pg). For ...
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Breast Cancer ResearchWomen can flick on the TV, look at the news stand, or be flipping through the local newspaper and once again see or hear another article on if having a mammogram at 40 is either good for you or whether you shouldn't have a mammogram. The controversy of having a mammogram at 40 has raged for over 30 ...
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CloningIn many controversial topics around the world, such as abortion, gun
control, legalized drugs, the death penalty, and (to name a few), we can
find differing positions, and opinions. Many of these arguments, can be narrowed
down to two different views, or constructs: individualistic and ...
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Alzheimers DiseaseAlzheimer’s disease is a slowly progressive, degenerative disorder of the brain that eventually results in abnormal brain function and death. The disease was first described in 1907 by a German physician, Dr. Alois Alzheimer(1864-1915). In the neurological autopsy on the brain of a 56-year-old ...
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The Ebola VirusA virus is an ultramicroscopic infectious organism that, having
no independent metabolic activity, can replicate only within a cell of
another host organism. A virus consists of a core of nucleic acid, either
RNA or DNA, surrounded by a coating of antigenic protein and sometimes a
lipid layer ...
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