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The Arctic Apple was brought into development in 1996 by a Canadian fruit company, Okanagan Specialty Fruits (OSF), that hoped to engineer conventional apples to be nonbrowning and bring them to the markets for consumers. Currently, 40% of the apples being produced are wasted and much of this is a result of superficial bruising and browning (Lehrman, 2014). The company’s goal is to reduce apple waste while still maintaining the apple’s great taste and healthfulness (Arctic® Apple, 2016). In essence

Do you ever just enter a grocery store to buy some fruits or vegetables? Of course you do! But have you noticed the word “GMO” flying around? Oh you don’t? It’s okay, that’s is why I’m here to help! Gmo stands for Genetically Modified Organisms. They are food but they are foods that have been processed by chemicals and all the technology items. “are living organisms whose genetic material has been artificially manipulated in a laboratory through genetic engineering, or GE. This relatively new science

Rosalind Franklin was born in the year 1920 in London, England to a “socially well-connected, upper class [Jewish] family” (Famous Scientists “Rosalind Franklin). The second of five children to be born to Ellis Franklin and Muriel Waley (Elkin). Franklin was close to her siblings, David, Colin, Roland, and Jenifer. Her brothers would teach her and show her activities that were typically enjoyed by boys such as sports and competition, but she still showed a zeal and passion for the debates and intellectual

in foreign countries, this war is HIV/AIDS (“American Rhetoric: Mary Fisher”). Sadly, Mary Fisher is one of the many victims that are crushed by the heartbreaking diagnostic of being HIV positive, however, this was her alarm to the severity of the virus. As a result, Fisher dedicated her life to spread awareness of HIV and AIDS. In addition to the jaw-dropping speech, Fisher, has dedicated her whole life to the awareness of AIDS, through her store, biographies, non-profitable organizations, and many

CRISPR-Cas9 currently stands out as the fastest, most reliable, and least expensive method of manipulating genes. It is also the most versatile and most accurate, thanks to its simplicity. For this reason, it has garnered much attention from both the scientific community and the general public. The question of whether or not genetic engineering is ethical and safe will be at the forefront of protest and controversy in the near future. Soon, it will be possible to edit and manipulate genes with

Melissa Babajko Microbiology 214BA Dr. May June 6, 2012 Staphylococcus aureus- Is a facultative anaerobic, Gram-positive, salt positive, cocci shaped bacterium. Staphylococcus aureus is found as normal part of the skin floral in the nasal passages and on the skin. An estimated twenty percent of people naturally have harmless Staphylococcus aureus on their skin and are long-term carries for Staphylococcus aureus. Staphylococcus aureus is the most common strand of Staphylococcus in humans to date

Mumps is an enveloped single stranded, non-segmented, negative-sense RNA virus belonging to the Paramyxoviridae family. The Mump virus genome is a 15.3-kb RNA with seven contiguous transcription units, encoding the nucleocapsid-associated protein (NP), V protein (V)/phosphoprotein (P), matrix (M) protein, fusion (F) protein, small hydrophobic (SH) protein, hemagglutinin-neuraminidase (HN) protein, and large (L) protein (Choi, 2010). Mumps was a common worldwide childhood disease dating back to

within 2 to 4 weeks after sowing. The primary reason for developing a genetic virus resistance for papaya is to counter the devastating effect of Papaya Ring Spot Virus on papaya. Papaya Ring Spot Virus is a deadly disease for papaya that inhibits the photosynthesis function of the plant and stunts growth leading to the death of the plant. Papaya Ring Spot Virus is a from potyvirus group and is an aphid-transmissible RNA virus that are infects papaya and can also be spread via human contact from infected

Priotities of Gene Therapy Gene therapy is a relatively new area of medicine that attempts to apply recent advances in molecular biology, genetics and biotechnology to the treatment of human diseases. Gene therapy uses a set of approaches to the treatment of human disease based on the transfer of genetic material (DNA) into an individual. Gene delivery can be achieved either by direct administration of gene-containing viruses or DNA to blood or tissues, or indirectly through the introduction

Gene Therapy and Its Effect on Cancer The era of scientific advancement in the twentieth century has encouraged several scientific fields to merge into a new, futuristic science called Biotechnology. One idea behind Biotechnical science is taking advantage of molecular biology. At the forefront of this advancement is gene therapy which " attempts to treat disease at its origin on the molecular level"(Kreeger,1996). "Essentially, this therapy deliberately introduces genes into the human cells