… advance in biotechnology. The use of cloning can be both beneficial and harmful to society. There are many reasonable ways to use the methods of cloning. For instance, the use for medical purposes can be helpful in cases such as producing animals…

… Modified Organism) debate. The destruction of a GMO maize crop in Wiltshire, lest it contaminate a neighboring organic crop, concerns about the safety of transgenic potatoes which had been modified to improve pest resistance and the significance…

… medicine and health, the ability to eliminate any problem anywhere in your body by repairing it with perfectly good cells that are made by differentiating stem cells. Lets first start out by explaining exactly what stem cells are, where they came from,…

…                  Proteins are very important to the human body. They provide the body with the nessary means for growth and repair. Proteins are made up of amino acids. Most of the amino acids you need are made in the body…

… the building blocks of life. Cells are essential parts of the body, and when they are damaged they can cause many problems. Under normal conditions, cells grow and divide to produce more cells when the body needs them. However, sometimes, these cells…

… that constitute a separate group, Brachiopoda. Brachiopods were prominent shell fish in many continental-shelf sea environments for about 250 million years, from the Ordovician into the Permian periods. In the Cambrian, some were prominent…

… have the AIDS disease is at present a sentence of slow but inevitable death. I've already lost one friend to AIDS. I may soon lose others. My own sexual behavior and that of many of my friends has been profoundly altered by it. In…

… Best grade in class.         The AMGEN Lab that we have been doing for the past two weeks consisted of two parts; Plasmid Fusion and PCR. Each one is a complicated procedure of genetic engineering, with our own cheek cells and E.Coli supplied…

… is a huge part of Biotechnology. Every human being has a unique DNA fingerprint. Regular fingerprints on fingers are not as reliable as they once were. Conventional fingerprints are easily altered by surgery. However, a DNA fingerprint is formed…

… by the spore-forming bacterium Bacillus anthracis. Anthrax most commonly occurs in wild and domestic lower vertebrates (cattle, sheep, goats, camels, antelopes, and other herbivores), but it can also occur in humans when they are exposed to infected…