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    Technology can be amazing if used in the right way and not used to harm people. The genome project leaves endless results of what is achievable through technology. Could someday, someone build an entire human from xenotransplantation. Could someday, there be a drug where you will never die anymore. The life expectancy from the last one hundred has already risen fifty percent to seventy-five years due to medicine. Who says this can’t keep growing now that it’s almost possible to have a xenotransplantation

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    The Human Genome Project On the brink of the 21st century, genetics is paving the way into a brave, new world where the discoveries being made will bestow upon us tremendous powers and possibilities that are restricted only by our imaginations. Many things long considered "science fiction" are well on their way to becoming reality. Advancements made by the Human Genome Project give us the ability to alter our own destinies along with those of our descendents. However, along with the benefits

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    for Biological Science, University of Southampton and School of Medicine, University of Tasmania. The work was also supported from Michael Stratton, the Welcome Trust Sanger Institute (WTSI) sequencing and informatics teams, and the WTSI Cancer Genome Project.

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    SHORT HISTORY OF THE RACE CONCEPT Michael Yudell, PhD, MPH. Through observing the human genome project that explores human molecular selves, skin color variation, and lastly race/human variation as a whole, a clear picture of race can be scientifically explained. The human genome project is a way of inspecting our molecular selves. There are three billions of letters that make up the DNA in the human genome that scientists have to study in order to understand our molecular cells. Furthermore, there

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    The Human Genome Project The Human Genome Project is one of the most widely discussed topics in genetics today. The United States human genome project began in 1990, when the $3 billion dollar project to map 3 billion DNA base pairs was announced.(4) When the initial funding was provided, it was anticipated that the project would require 15 years to complete and the target date for completion was 2005.(8) Recent technological advances have shortened that time period, and it is now estimated

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    It was rumored last month that the scientists are planning to create a synthetic human genome, however the project was not confirmed until now. It has been finally revealed that the “secret meeting” was called on to take a decision on the new project, dubbed Human Genome Project-Write (HGP-Write). The project HGP-Write intends to create the entire human genome by addition of chemical nucleotides that form the basic unit of DNA, that is, genes. However, this is not the first time that synthetic genetic

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    commence what would be the world’s largest collaborative biological project. The Human Genome Project holds many clues about diseases caused by genes and how scientists can translate this knowledge in the area of gene-therapy to treat and cure genetic disorders. The Human Genome Project, in my opinion, is one of the greatest achievements made by mankind and ever since its completion in 2003, I've always wanted to contribute to projects like these. My school’s lack of scientific equipment prevents

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    The cancer genome atlas project can cure cancer. There are a few reasons that can support the evidence that cancer genome atlas project can cure cancer. Firstly, It allows us to understand the genome by mapping out mutation, there are some evidence that can support this reason; lung cancer has been causing death over many years, lung squamous cell is one

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    The Human Genome Project was a scientific program aimed at getting to know all of the complementary sequence of base pairs that make up the human genome, containing approximately 30 thousand genes. The project began in 1990 and was originally planned to last 15 years, but rapid technology advances accelerated the completion date to 2003. (WJEC A2 Biology, 2012) says main aims of the project were to: • Identify all the approximately 20,000-25,000 genes in human DNA. • Determine the sequences of the

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    This documentary traces evolutionary science from Charles Darwin's first observations concerning natural selection to the modern study of the Human Genome Project. The movie documents Darwin’s journey in the Galapagos Islands, where the differences in the beak shapes and the sizes of different species of finches introduced him to the idea of natural selection. Although Darwin laid out the fundamentals of evolutionary biology, he does not explain how variations occur in a species population. This

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