Gene Logsdon

naturally born babies born into a sterile, genetically enhanced world, where life expectancy and disease likelihood are ascertained at birth. Myopic and due to die at 30, he has no chance of a career in a society that now discriminates against your genes, instead of your gender, race or religion. Vincent an invalid, dreams of working within Gattaca and making it into space. He combines with Jerome who was disabled in an accident to take his identity and live his life to enter the Gattaca Corporation

humans. Prerequisite Knowledge: Before beginning this lab, you should be familiar with these concepts: the definition of sex-linked genes, and examples of sex-linked genes in humans and other organisms how the inheritance pattern of sex-linked genes differs from that of autosomal genes the use of Punnett squares to understand patterns of inheritance Introduction: The gene that codes for red-green color blindness, the most common form of color blindness in humans, is found on the X chromosome. One in

Cancer is probably one of the most dreaded words in the English language. It is a disease where cells becomes abnormal and start to divide uncontrollably and from tumors. A frightening thing to consider is that some forms of cancer do not show side effects until the advanced stages. When the disease is severe, the treatment is also severe and sometimes chemotherapy and radiation do not work. However, there is hope for a better system of cancer treatment that has shown to have a higher chance of

In 2013, the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine was awarded to James Rothman, Randy Schekman, and Thomas Sudhof for their pioneering research in cell signaling pathways. Together, they were able to solve many questions that we had about how this precise cell-­‐to-­‐ cell regulation is carried out. With their works, many scientists across the

Humans have strived for improvement in every facet of their lives, all the way from technology down to their diet. In this current day and age, humans are now capable of gene manipulation in their children, meaning mankind is taking a great step in familial modification. Yet even with our advancements in the medical field, we still fall to the ills of cancer, Alzheimer’s, or anything else on the laundry list of genetic disorders. With such opportunity to better improve our children, what mother or

in biology has developed, in which explicitly looks at mutations and how it causes the gene to change. More specifically it looks at how the “genetic switches” known as Hox genes have made these mutations possible. This new field is called evolutionary

1. Introduction The Ebola virus (EBOV) is a dangerous virus which has a chance of mortality when infected up to 90%. This makes it one of the most deadly viruses for humans in the world. 1, 2 It does not stop there. Various EBOV outbreaks have fatally infected tens of thousands of chimpan-zees, duikers and gorillas. It those areas it is a great threat to the wildlife.3 EBOV belongs to the order of the nonsegmented negative-sense (NNS)RNA type viruses, the Mononegavirales and it is part of the family

Cells are the essential component of life, comprised of billions of molecules. Molecules such as DNA, lipids, proteins, RNA, glycans, and small molecules that have defined molecular properties and biological activities. Every cell has the ability to respond to its environment and to communicate with other cells to create organs, tissues, and whole organisms. Cell and Molecular Biology is a field that bridges the fields of chemistry, structure and biology as it pursues to comprehend life and cellular

In 2001, the Food and Drug Administration has declared mitochondrial replacement as a form of gene therapy (Hayden). When new genetic material is introduced into the gametes (or embryo), it modifies the germline. This genetic modification is not only passed on to the child, but also the subsequent generations (Bredenoord, Pennings, and Wert 670)

enable scientists to make animals have certain characteristics and enable to them to remove certain characteristics. Take Jackie for example she was a normal pig when the expirement first started. Scientists then took the glowing gene from a jellyfish and transplanted the gene from the pig with the one of the jellyfish. Soon after the lights were shut off and Jackie was glowing! It is not as easy as it sounds, but the outcome is pretty freakin sweet! Professor Hulm a teacher at Stanford quotes, “In the