Gene Tierney

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

Human gene therapy is a procedure that is currently being used to help fight diseases with no known cures. Gene testing removes a gene that causes a disease and replaces it with a healthy copy of that gene. By placing a healthy copy of the gene inside the patient’s body, that gene can help fight any diseases, such as different forms of cancer, inherited disorders, immune system discords or viral infections (AIDS). Once inside the cell, the genes produce what the patient lacks, it kills the diseased

because of their small body size, their fertilization cycle, and genetically close relationship to human genome. To unravel the function of disease-related genes and to understand the mechanism of disease progression, mouse mutants were generated by pronuclear microinjection of TALEN mRNA targeted to the mouse homologs of human disease genes into one-cell embryos to generate novel Knockout and Knockin mutants. Frontotemporal lobar degeneration (FTLD) is a common cause of presenile dementia caused

INTRODUCTION: Genetic Engineering is a process where an organism’s genetic material is altered by introducing a new DNA. It is where a gene is artificially removed from one organism and transmitted into another using biotechnology. Its goal is to provide with one or more traits that are not found in recipient organism, giving it the ability to perform a certain action, which the organism in nature cannot. DNA and proteins are very important aspects in order to understand genetic engineering. DNA

through our parents’ genes. In human, there are 23 pairs of chromosomes (22 autosomal pairs and 1 pair of sex chromosomes), our chromosomes are organized into short segments of DNA called genes, and these genes make up our chromosomes. Our chromosomes can tell us if we have a disease or not, certain disease appear in certain chromosomes that help us determine what type of genetic disease the disease is. Variations of our genes are called alleles, having 2 alleles for each gene. When we use alleles

GATTACA In class, we watched the movie GATTACA. There were several ways in which this movie related to what we are learning and discussing in class. This movie was able to make everything more clear as it showed and explained concepts in more description. This movie seemed very futuristic and science fiction to me but the key concepts dealing with DNA and pregnancies are reality. When Jerome’s parents visited a genetics center for a second child, the geneticist stated that he took the liberty