Granulosa cell tumour

Cloning has already revolutionized biology and medicine with the appearance of Dolly, “the first mammal ever cloned from a sheep’s adult cell” (Rhind et al. 855). Since then, scientist have tried to clone human cells even though it hasn't been legalised due to moral and religious values. Specialists say is not a matter of whether it should be legalised or not, but a matter of when is it going to be legalised. The question of whether to clone individuals is one that does not require a reply. Now…

goes back to cell cycle and main thing is mitosis. All the cancer cells can all be traced back to the original devil that the disease started with since they were all clones. This means that had undergone mitosis and since they aren’t working properly they ignore signals and keep multiplying and transferring to other devils when introduced making them malignant. Though not a part of cell cycle we’ve learned that a cell all has a unique signature and due to the fact that these cells signatures…

When you hear term "happiness", you think of happy thoughts or events in the past you have been through that has caused the feeling of happiness to occur. Although it is just a feeling, a mere sensation you feel throughout your body, it has the amount of force and meaning to push anybody beyond their limits. The definition of happiness can be explained by a mental state or emotion you feel after pleasant thoughts and/or memories intervene from contentment to joy. Sure, you can live on with this…

different types of cell to have their own cell specialization (Campbell 365). In order for each cell to do it’s given role, they each need to maintain a program of gene expression individually to have some genes expressed and the rest not (Campbell 365). Only 20% of protein coding genes that a human cell has might be expressed. Cells such as muscle and nerve cells are highly differentiated so they express an even lower percentage of their genes (Campbell 365). Most of the cells in a…

Genetics To Down Syndrome Genetics describes the makeup of our cells, genes, chromosomes, and phenotypes. When there is alter in a gene or a duplication of a chromosome, it can lead to a certain diseases. One of the main diseases known today from a duplication of a chromosome is Down syndrome. John Down first put a name to Down syndrome in 1866, but artifacts from Mexico and Saxon documented some cases of Down syndrome in individuals, and also some were found in paintings of the Renaissance in…

warning related to smoking habits. However, we still have to continue to test drugs before using in humans. There many other methods to study the effects of drugs in humans, between them we can cite a few: epidemiological studies, human tissue and cell cultures, and autopsy studies. In addition, there are being developed a new technique that will be capable of eliminate animal testing for good. It consist of software, called in silico (on computers), use that will identify and map the pathways…

The issue that I am going to write my paper over is about genetically engineered embryos and whether or not further research should be done to allow the altering of an unborn fetus. My first topic that came to my mind when I heard about this assignment was actually abortion. Then we were shown a list of banned topics and abortion was number one on the list which was disappointing. Later when we went to the library to search for our topics, I ran across an article that interested me. It was about…

Engineering Genetics? Genetic engineering is when a living cell’s deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) is altered to improve it in nearly any way one wishes. Alterations may include: how the cell would look later on in life; tricking it into producing something it normally would not; and/or increasing the amount of resources produced. Even though not everyone agrees with how the research is done on genetic engineering, it does do one thing: it betters our society. Due to research of genetic engineering,…

about being on an organ transplant waiting list for decades, waiting for their inevitable death. Human cloning has allowed us to grow organs, by using skin cells and converting them to stem cells. The nucleus of these stem cells of skin are then replaced into the nucleus and create what is known as a blastocyst, a bundle of hundreds of cells whose purpose is to specialize growing a specific body part, such as an ear. (Knapton). Not only can this help people who are in life-threatening…

Scientists are using stem cells to mess with the embryos they come from and diseases common all around the world. This topic is so popular people feel that “a fixation on it alone has come at the cost of many other important issues being overlooked or, at the very least, under-examined” (Lysaght, Tamra, and Alastair V. Campbell 251). Stem cells are undifferentiated cells that can be transformed into any type of cell (Rebecca). Scientists take these cells to make new cells, tissues, and organs to…