Adrienne Livioco
August 24, 2017
MDA110 - Pharmacology
DNA Recombinant and How it Helps Certain Companies Produce Certain Drugs
Technology has flourished and has improved our way of living in many ways than one. In the medical world, it has definitely shaped our ways to helping patients through medication. For instance, diabetes, or growth and clotting disorders among the spectrum of human diseases related to protein absence or malfunction. A lot of the medications that we use today are created from bacteria, yeast, insect cells, and mammalian cells, which boost the production of the protein within the human body. For example, insulin is a very in demand medication due to the increase of diabetes as a disease. Before technology, insulin would
With all of the technology improvements and advances we are able to fight and protect more effectively against ermiging diseases.
Discoveries in DNA, cell biology, evolution, biotechnology have been among the major achievements in biology over the past 200 years with accelerated discoveries and insights over the last 50 years. Consider the progress we have made in these areas of human knowledge. Present at least three of the discoveries you find to be most important and describe their significance to society, health, and the culture of modern life.
Each human being has something called DNA. DNA is described as genetics and an extremely long macromolecule that is the main component of chromosomes and is the material that transfers genetic characteristics in all life forms. DNA constructs of two nucleotide strands coiled around each other in a ladder like arrangement with the sidepieces composed of alternating phosphate and deoxyribose units and the rungs composed of the purine and pyrimidine bases adenine, guanine, cytosine, and thymine. Each chromosome consist of one continuous thread-like molecule of DNA coiled tightly around proteins and contains a portion of the 6,400,000,000 basepairs that make up your DNA.
Medicine has been developed and discovered for thousands of years; however, the 1920’s was the first decade that fashioned a pathway for new developments and discoveries. Medical professionals have taken a huge hit for their fight in finding new inventions that can save patients from death’s hands. In the 1920’s, medicine has also taken a tremendous leap in controlling fatal diseases such as diabetes (Pendergast 110). Medicine in the 1920’s has altered the way medicine is shaped today; furthermore, the development and discovery of the iron lung, penicillin, and insulin were the first pertinent breakthroughs in medical history (“Iron” par. 7; Grimsley par. 15; “Banting” par. 13).
Medical technology is advancing at a rapid rate. For example, a very common procedure is an endoscopy and colonoscopy which checks for bowel and stomach cancers and some other conditions. New technology is being trialed at the moment, instead of a patient going under an anesthetic and having to have a special diet and bowel preparation prior to the procedure, this will now be done by taking a capsule in a tablet like form where the patient will swallow the capsule that contains a tiny camera and batteries and then be later eliminated by the patients natural bowel movements. This is swallowed by the patient and will travel through the gastro intestinal system, taking
Medical breakthrough of the 1950’s created a healthier environment for Americans and the world. In the early 1950 through many scientific studies and efforts Anti-biotics were created . thus, began the control of bacterial infection. Many treatment drugs and surgical procedures were invented to help Americans deal with Arthritis, Diabetes, Heart disease and Cancer. A step toward a healthy tomorrow for many of those afflicted with these, until now, untreatable areas.
Medicine has been used since ancient times, but it has greatly developed through the centuries. Today, people have doctors, nurses, surgeons, therapists, and many other individuals in the health field. Society’s definition of a healthy lifestyle, and the way people live, has greatly changed, and it has given most people a new perspective on society 's health. Before medications and doctors, people often died, or had no way to recover from illnesses and disease, because there were no cures. Advances in medicine are made every day. These advances could be a new allergy medication, a new vaccine to prevent a deadly disease, or a new way of performing surgeries, but all of these advances have one thing in common: they can save lives and make a better America.
Sure enough, many inventions have given us the possibility of curing diseases and other disorders that was never possible several decades ago. From various scanning machines such as MRIs and CATs to different machines that assist with the most complicated surgeries in which precision is key. Technologies have advanced diagnostics immensely allowing for the prevention of numerous diseases or catching them at the right time while they are at the early stage of development. Technologies allowed us to see yet unborn children within the mother's abdomen - something that would seem beyond possible at any time in 1901. Alas, technology cannot be defined within the sphere of medicine alone. It has brought about countless negative aspects that hinder us constantly sometimes without us even noticing the damage
With the huge diversity and changeability of human biology, it is impossible to imagine a reality without some mutations, changes, or issues in the organs and tissues of humans. Thus, it rightly follows that medications and pharmaceuticals have been created in an effort to counteract the various ailments and illnesses that people can experience. However, as time has gone on and these pharmaceuticals have become more and more high-tech, regulated, and trusted, they have also become incredibly commercialized. Worse still, medications have become incredibly expensive and can be unattainable for some people.
The practice of medicine has been shaped through the years by advances in the area of diagnostic procedures. Many of these advances were made possible by scientific breakthroughs made before the 20th century. Modern medicine arguably emerged. Both normal and abnormal functions (physiology and pathology) were increasingly understood within smaller units, first the tissues and then the cells. Microscopy also played a key role in the development of bacteriology. Physicians started to use stethoscope as an aid in diagnosing certain diseases and conditions. New ways of diagnosing disease were developed, and surgery emerged as an important branch of medicine. Above all, a combination of science and technology underpinned medical knowledge and
The improvement of medicine over the course of the human successes gave great convenience to the people of today. Science has cured and prevented many illnesses from occurring and is on its way to cure some of the most dreadful and harmful illnesses. As the world modernizes due to the industrialization, so does the ways of medicine. Some cures are approached by chance, some, through intense, scientific measures.
DNA, Deoxyribonucleic Acid, is the basic structure for all life, it is the blueprint, the instruction manual, on how to build a living organism. DNA is made up of four nitrogen bases, adenine, thymine, cytosine, and guanine which are connected by sugar-phosphate bonds. Through a process called Protein Synthesis, the nitrogen bases are the code for the creation of amino acids. Essentially, DNA makes amino acids, amino acids make proteins, proteins make organisms. This process has been taking place for much longer than scientists have been able to document. Those scientists are called geneticists and their field is genetics.
Analysis of DNA from practicals 1 and 2 using the technique of agarose gel electrophoresis and analysis of transfomed E. coli from practical 2 (part B)
Back in the 1200’s the human race had just discovered the circulation of blood. That shows how far we have come with modern medicine. Things like vaccines and even genetics such as DNA would never have been discovered if it was not for
In the past three decades, scientists have learned how to mix and match characteristics among unrelated creatures by moving genes from one creature to another. This is called “genetic engineering.” Genetic Engineering is prematurely applied to food production. There are estimates that food output must increase by 60 percent over the next 25 years to keep up with demand. Thus, the result of scientist genetically altering plants for more consumption. The two most common methods for gene transfer are biological and electromechanical. “Early experiments all involved changing DNA using bacterial vectors”(Randerson, 2001). Through other advances scientists proclaim how they can improve the human gene pool. All humans have