Hashmis Another Family Tree Case Study

A genogram is a type of family tree, but with more detailed information. It is often used as a diagnostic and assessment tool by physicians or counselors to obtain individual and family history in order to help in the establishment of a diagnosis and treatment plan.

In the article “Selecting the Perfect Baby: The Ethics of “Embryo Design,” is an article about a married couple, name Larry and June Shannon. They have a daughter, four years old, name Sally, who is diagnosed with Fanconi Anemia. Therefore, the Shannons are getting help from a research team, to find the perfect bone marrow transplant for Sally. The Shannon couple is also interested in having another child and they are aware of the risks and odds of success. However, a PGD process has to be performed and the couple must undergo an IVF procedure more than once, before the implantation is successful, to be able to produce a healthy full-term baby.

In the Article “Redrawing Humanity’s Family Tree” by John Noble Wilford, describes how two different skulls challenge the theories of human origins and migrations. The Central African skull, that dates back to nearly 7 million years ago, was assigned to a whole new genus and species because of its apelike and evolved hominid species. The 1.75-million-year-old Georgian skull shows evidence that the first hominids may have been intercontinental travelers who set motion the migrations that occupied the whole planet. Finally a third skull was found that is the same age and shares a resemblance but, the size of the skull suggests that the brain was smaller than expected for H. erectus.

While the medicine industry reaped millions of dollars in profits, one group of people in particular has been denied the benefits from HeLa cells - the Lacks themselves. Until the 1970's the Lacks family had no knowledge of the HeLa cell line. The cells from

In the year of 1989, an infant named Eric was born. However, he wasn’t your mediocre child that everyone hopes for. He was fairly sick, which was because doctors and hematologists found out he had anemia. He was suffering shortness of breath and fatigue, due to him not having enough red blood cells being produced in order for him to survive. It was because he has a very rare case of anemia called Diamond Blackfan anemia. This is where the bone marrow fails to function. He was expected to only live for 6 years.

Additionally, an author provided an example of another therapy –the haploidentical transplantation that uses bone- marrow cells, which are only half-matched to a patient. However, Berger clearly gives readers to understand that using umbilical-cord stem cells is better because they have not been exposed much to bacteria and viruses. As an article says the transplant trial was done by Colleen Delaney of the Fred Hutchinson cancer Research Center. The author of the article states that Delaney’s clinical trial saved the lives of thirteen people, including Quinn and Gordon, out of fifteen participants. Therefore, using the stem cells from babies’ umbilical cords is a new solution for the blood cancer patients, especially those with different racial

Trey Schneider Mr. Fraune Theology 9B, A Block February 28, 2015 Genesis: Chapters 11-20 Chapter 11 Characters: LORD, the family tree of Shem Main Theme(s): This chapter shows the family tree of Shem to Abram. Major Events/Teachings: This chapter talks about the family from Shem’s family all the way to Abram, which is the son of Terah.

Mama strongly believes in the importance of family, and she tries to teach this value to her family as she struggles to keep them together and functioning. At the beginning the Younger family didn’t seem to understand and appreciate the importance of family but towards the end Mama worked the importance into their brains. Beneatha and Walter both struggle the most because of how self-centered they were. Walter made a bad decision without even talking it over as a family first. He put his dad’s insurance money in a business that turned out to not work. Beneatha denied Walter as a brother even when they needed each other the most. The family had issues but toward the end they began to see the importance of family.

Saviour sibling practice is medically proven to be successful in curing the affected child and all the procedures involved are safe for both the child and the donor. In 1989, the Ayalas family attempted to create a saviour child that could provide stem cells for their child, Anissa, who had leukemia. Marissa Ayala was then conceived and she was a perfect match for her older sister thus, bone marrow transplant was done and it was successful. It was then reported that today, “Marissa is now a happy and healthy teenager, who was cherished and held dear by her parents as they promised she would be.”2

The Ayala Case presented in Case 2 from Chapter nine explains that Anissa “was diagnosed with chronic myelogenous leukemia (174),” at the age of sixteen. None of Anissa’s family members or candidates from the National Marrow Donor Program was a match with her bone marrow. The only option left was for Anissa’s parents to conceive a child with compatible bone marrow. “…The odds of having a child that could save Anissa’s life (175)” were only 6.4%. Against the low odds, Anissa’s parents had a child named Marissa-Eve that was compatible with Anissa’s bone marrow. At fourteen months, Marissa-Eve’s “bone marrow was used in a transplant to save Anissa’s life. Anissa’s life expectancy surpassed the original numbers she was given, which was three to

All of the family and friends of the Flynn’s were tested, but a match was not found. Unlike blood, bone marrow is extremely hard to match genetically; the chances of finding a compatible donor for a white American is one in 10,000. The numbers jump to one in 100,000 or higher for those of African decent or mixed race. Mrs. Flynn had to put her

October 2000 - A child conceived in part to provide therapeutic tissues for an earlier-born sibling is born; techniques of preimplantation genetic diagnosis are used to ensure that the child does not itself carry the disease

Over the past two decades, the stem cells became an important part of a medical research. Today, stem cells are used to assist in treating numerous diseases. The umbilical cord blood can now be saved in special banks to preserve the youngest stem cells for an unlikely event the child later develops a certain kind of illness. Although there has been a lot of talk about research using stem cells, most people don’t come in contact with the topic of cord blood banking. This issue is exclusively presented to expecting parents. I want to use this question to inform unfamiliar readers about cord blood banking and its use in stem cells research. I intend to use this a question as an introduction to this topic in my research essays.

In October 1988, the first umbilical cord blood transplant was done on a young five-year old boy named Matthew Farrow in France, who was diagnosed with severe aplastic anemia due to Fanconi anemia. The umbilical cord blood was collected at birth from Matthew’s newborn sister who, through prenatal testing, had been found to be unaffected by Fanconi anemia and was HLA-identical to Matthew. The UCB was cryopreserved and taken from Indiana to France, where it was then thawed and injected into Matthew. There was no evidence of graft-versus-host disease, and according to Ballen, Gluckman and Broxmeyer, as of 2013, Matthew is “healthy with complete long-term hematological and immunological donor reconstitution 25 years after

The family structure determines where you derive from and provides a sense of who you are. The typical family structure is perceived as a father and a mother, two children, one boy and one girl, and a pet. The typical family description described above is still promoted and expected to be the “dream family.” Author Meyerhoff, “While the nuclear family with Dad, Mom, and offspring happily coexisting beneath one roof-remains the ideal, variations in family structure are plentiful and often successful” (Meyerhoff). Meaning that a lot of families are remarried spouses with prior children and more common in the last decade same sex marriages. So, do these nontraditional families have the same qualities? Personally, I would think so. After